Ivan Doig, Author . Scribner $25 (371p) ISBN 978-0-7432-0135-3
In his rambling, sluggishly paced seventh novel, noted western novelist Doig explores the discord that racism sows in the Montana wilderness during the Roaring 20s. Susan Duff, the schoolgirl nightingale from his Montana trilogy's middle book,...
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Ivan Doig, Author . Harcourt $25 (345p) ISBN 978-0-15-101237-4
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Any writer's work should be judged solely on its own merits, yet in this fine novel by Ivan Doig, one may be forgiven for marveling at the creation of such a work at an advanced stage of this writer's...
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Ivan Doig, Author . Harcourt $26 (416p) ISBN 978-0-15-101243-5
In the solid latest from veteran novelist Doig (The Whistling Season
), 11 starters of a close-knit Montana college championship football team enlist as the U.S. hits the thick of WWII and are capriciously flung around the globe in various branches...
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Ivan Doig, Riverhead, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-59448-762-0
Doig affectionately revisits Morris "Morrie" Morgan from the much-heralded The Whistling Season. Now, 10 years later, in 1919, Morrie lands in Butte, Mont., beholding the area's natural beauty that "made a person look twice." Scoring a job is a top...
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Ivan Doig, Author Scribner Book Company $16 (416p) ISBN 978-0-684-83105-3
The second volume in Doig's Montana trilogy focuses on two Scottish immigrants around the turn of the century. (Sept.)
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Ivan Doig, Author Scribner Book Company $18.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-689-11764-0
Montana's rugged Two Medicine country, memorably evoked in the author's nonfiction memoir This House of Sky and the novel English Creek, once again shapes personalities and destinies in his new work. In 1889, two young Scotsmen, Rob Barclay and...
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Ivan Doig, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (416p) ISBN 978-0-684-81171-0
As in Doig's Montana trilogy (Dancing at the Rascal Fair, etc.), here American history forms the vivid backdrop for a flinty family drama. Once again, a group of hardheaded, Scotch-descended Montanans struggle with each other and with nature, this...
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Ivan Doig, Author Scribner Book Company $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-684-83295-1
If any writer can be said to wear the mantle of the late Wallace Stegner, Doig qualifies, as a steady and astute observer of life in our Western states. Infused with his knowledge and appreciation of the Western landscapes, his novels are a finger...
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Ivan Doig, Author Penguin Books $13.95 (343p) ISBN 978-0-14-008442-9
The summer of his 14th year brings challenges and changes to Jick McCaskill and his family, in this book which echoes with ""the pioneering and human spirit,'' observed PW. Jick's older brother decides not to attend college, becoming a cowboy...
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Ivan Doig, Author Atheneum Books $18.95 (324p) ISBN 978-0-689-12019-0
Spurred by the 1989 centennial of Montana's statehood, moody widower Jick McCaskill, turning 65, criss-crosses the state in a Winnebago with his photographer daughter, strong-willed, feisty Mariah, and her ex-husband, Riley, a reporter. In this...
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Ivan Doig, Author Penguin Books $14 (336p) ISBN 978-0-14-015607-2
In this conclusion to the McCaskill trilogy, moody widower Jickyes,JICK , his feisty photographer daughter, Mariah, and her ex-husband, Riley, celebrate Montana's 1989 centennial by criss-crossing the state in a Winnebago. Doig ``displays a...
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Ivan Doig, Author Penguin Books $13 (176p) ISBN 978-0-14-023508-1
This moving complement to Doig's acclaimed memoir, This House of Sky, chronicles the author's childhood in Montana and Arizona in the 1940s. (Oct.)
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Ivan Doig. Riverhead, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-59448-735-4
The summer of 1960 stretches wide in Doig’s highly textured and evocative new novel, which returns to Work Song and The Whistling Season’s Two Medicine County, Mont. After living half his life in Phoenix, Ariz., with his aunt, 12-year-old Russell “Ru
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Ivan Doig. Riverhead, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59448-734-7
Butte, Montana in the 1920s meant Anaconda Copper Mining Company squeezing the town, its residents, and the land for everything they've got. Doig (The Bartender's Tale) brings back the charismatic Morrie Morgan, a walking encyclopedia prone to...
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Ivan Doig. Riverhead, $28.95 (464p) ISBN 978-1-59463-202-0
The pleasures of reading Doig’s final novel (he died in April 2015) are bittersweet. His familiar themes are here: love for his native Montana, and his astute observation of and admiration for the tough homesteaders and ranchers who eke out a...
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Ivan Doig, Author, Lee Goerner, Editor Scribner Book Company $19 (208p) ISBN 978-0-689-12137-1
In poetic and precise prose, Doig has crafted a worthy complement to his acclaimed memoir, This House of Sky. While that book concerned family tensions after his mother Berneta's death in 1945, here, prompted by a cache of his mother's letters to...
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