The Whistling Season - Ivan Doig - Bøker - HarperCollins - 9780156031646 - 7. mai 2007
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The Whistling Season Reprint edition

Novelist Ivan Doig revisits the American west in the early twentieth century, bringing to life the eccentric individuals and idiosyncratic institutions that made it thrive.

?Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition" that draws the attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. That unforgettable season deposits the ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her font-of-knowledge brother, Morris Morgan, in Marias Coulee along with a stampede of homesteaders drawn by the promise of the Big Ditch?a gargantuan irrigation project intended to make the Montana prairie bloom. When the schoolmarm runs off with an itinerant preacher, Morris is pressed into service, setting the stage for the "several kinds of education"?none of them of the textbook variety?Morris and Rose will bring to Oliver, his three sons, and the rambunctious students in the region's one-room schoolhouse. A paean to a way of life that has long since vanished, The Whistling Season is Ivan Doig at his evocative best.


352 pages

Media Bøker     Pocketbok   (Bok med mykt omslag og limt rygg)
Utgitt 7. mai 2007
ISBN13 9780156031646
Utgivere HarperCollins
Antall sider 352
Mål 204 × 136 × 22 mm   ·   272 g
Språk Engelsk  

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