Author : Ivan Doig
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0151012377
The saga of how a widow from Minneapolis and her brother--soon to become the new teacher in a tiny Montana community in 1909--change lives in unexpected ways has all the charm of old-school storytelling, from Dickens to Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Author : Ivan Doig
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 17,87 MB
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1594631484
A national bestseller, the story of “a boy’s last days of youth and a history his father can’t leave behind” (The Daily Beast). Tom Harry has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a venerable bar called The Medicine Lodge, the chief watering hole and last refuge in the town of Gros Ventre, in northern Montana. Tom also has a son named Rusty, an “accident between the sheets” whose mother deserted them both years ago. The pair make an odd kind of family, with the bar their true home, but they manage just fine. Until the summer of 1960, that is, when Rusty turns twelve. Change arrives with gale force, in the person of Proxy, a taxi dancer Tom knew back when, and her beatnik daughter, Francine. Is Francine, as Proxy claims, the unsuspected legacy of her and Tom’s past? Without a doubt she is an unsettling gust of the future, upending every certainty in Rusty’s life and generating a mist of passion and pretense that seems to obscure everyone’s vision but his own. The Bartender’s Tale wonderfully captures how the world becomes bigger and the past becomes more complex in the last moments of childhood.
Author : Ivan Doig
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 30,1 MB
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1594485208
"[A] novel that best expresses the American spirit." –The Chicago Tribune “If America was a melting pot, Butte seemed to be its boiling point,” observes Morrie Morgan, the itinerant teacher and inveterate charmer who stole readers’ hearts in The Whistling Season. A decade later, he steps off the train and into the copper mining capital of the world in its jittery 1919 heyday. While the riches of “the Richest Hill on Earth” may elude him, once again a colorful cast of local characters seek him out. Before long, Morrie is caught up in the clash between the ironfisted Anaconda Mining Company, radical “outside agitators,” and the beleaguered miners. As tensions build aboveground and below, Morrie finds a unique way to give a voice to those who truly need one, and Ivan Doig proves yet again why he’s reigning king of Western fiction.
Author : Ivan Doig
Publisher : HMH
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 43,18 MB
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0547350589
After Pearl Harbor, the lives of eleven Montana college football teammates are changed forever in an “intensely suspenseful and moving” novel (Scott Turow). In the early 1940s, the starting lineup of Treasure State University’s football team are local heroes. But as America is pulled into World War II, they feel called to become heroes of another kind. Now, ten of them are scattered around the globe in the war’s lonely and dangerous theaters. The eleventh man, Ben Reinking, has been plucked from pilot training by a military propaganda machine. He is to chronicle the adventures of his teammates, man by man, for publication in small-town newspapers across the country like the one his father edits. Ready for action, Reinking chafes at the assignment—not knowing that it will bring him love from an unexpected quarter and test the law of averages, which holds that all but one of his teammates should come through the conflict unscathed . . .
Author : Ivan Doig
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,89 MB
Release : 2005-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0743271270
The portrait of a time and a place -Montana in the 1930's -- is depicted through the McCaskill family's personal struggles.
Author : Ivan Doig
Publisher : HMH
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 20,33 MB
Release : 1982-10-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0547546734
A blend of modern-day travel memoir and nineteenth-century history, “infused with the fresh air and spirit of the Northwest” (The New York Times Book Review). The author of the acclaimed This House of Sky and Mountain Time provides a magnificent evocation of the Pacific Northwest through his exploration of the unpublished diaries of James Gilchrist Swan, an early settler of the region who was drawn there from Boston in the 1850s. Winter Brothers fuses excerpts from these diaries with author Ivan Doig’s own journal entries, as he travels in Swan’s footsteps one winter along the once-wild coastline of Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. What emerges is a remarkable interaction of two minds, a dialogue across time that links the present with the reality of the American frontier. “Absorbing . . . A double portrait of striking clarity, yet with wonderfully subtle hues.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Author : Rebecca Netley
Publisher : Michael Joseph
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,74 MB
Release : 2022-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781405950244
FEEL SHIVERS DOWN YOUR SPINE WITH THIS CHILLING AND GRIPPING GHOST STORY SET ON A FAR-FLUNG SCOTTISH ISLAND . . . 'Wonderfully atmospheric, genuinely eerie' GUARDIAN 'Gripping, chilling and very, very satisfying' DAILY MAIL 'A ghost story that kept me guessing' SUSAN STOKES-CHAPMAN 'Perfect for a cold winter's night' DAILY MIRROR 'It will chill you to the bone' ANITA FRANK 'If you're looking for a chilling tale as we head towards Halloween, you've found it' HEAT _________ When Elspeth arrives on a remote Scottish island to become nanny to a young child, she hopes to bond with her. Until she learns that, for reasons no one will explain, Mary has not spoken for months. And the girl's silence is not the only mystery. Hypnotic lullabies drift down empty corridors. Strange dolls appear in abandoned rooms. And as the nights draw in, darker questions arise . . . What happened to Mary's late twin, William? Why did their previous nanny disappear so suddenly? And is the whistling Elspeth hears at night just the storm outside? Or is somebody coming for her . . . ? _________ *Longlisted for the Ondaatje Prize* READERS ARE CHILLED BY THE WHISTLING 'I was sucked in from page one and read it in one fell swoop' 5* READER REVIEW 'A wicked twist . . . brilliant, scary, clever. Horror writing at its best' 5* READER REVIEW 'A great story with moments of heart-grabbing terror, beautifully written' 5* READER REVIEW
Author : Ivan Doig
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 17,32 MB
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439124949
The central volume in Ivan Doig's acclaimed Montana trilogy, Dancing at the Rascal Fair is an authentic saga of the American experience at the turn of this century and a passionate, portrayal of the immigrants who dared to try new lives in the imposing Rocky Mountains. Ivan Doig's supple tale of landseekers unfolds into a fateful contest of the heart between Anna Ramsay and Angus McCaskill, walled apart by their obligations as they and their stormy kith and kin vie to tame the brutal, beautiful Two Medicine country.
Author : Stephen Beachy
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 43,76 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Teenagers
ISBN : 9780393029642
Matt, a street-smart but innocent fugitive from an orphanage hitchhikes through 1980's America in search of Andalusia, the babysitter from his lost, idyllic childhood, and comes to understand guilt, responsibility, and the faces of love
Author : Will Savive
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 44,22 MB
Release : 2021-11-24
Category :
ISBN : 9781737486527
Harry is an aloof trust-fund baby who is struggling to create a meaningful legacy. He enlists the help of his best friend, a successful environmental engineer (and their significant others), to help him restore a possibly lucrative property that he recently purchased. However, The group fails to heed the warnings from locals that the land is terrorized by a very menacing presence. When night falls, can they survive the onslaught of this fearsome whistling human predator who collects the bones of his victims?
