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PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100156031647
ISBN-139780156031646
eBay Product ID (ePID)57030208
Product Key Features
Book TitleWhistling Season
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2007
TopicContemporary Women, General, Westerns, Literary, Historical
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorIvan Doig
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight9.6 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsPRAISE FOR IVAN DOIG "The reigning master of new Western literature . . . [Doig is] bigger than the Big Sky. He stands upon the shoulders of Wallace Stegner and A. B. Guthrie, taller than Edward Abbey and Tom McGuane, and sees much farther. He looks homeward, and he sees a place in all our minds, not just those who live in and write about the West."--San Francisco Chronicle --, PRAISE FOR THE WHISTLING SEASON"Flawless . . . The Whistling Season is a book that strives for more than beauty, which it achieves: It reaches for joy."O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE"Luminous . . . Doig has given us yet another memorable tale set in the historical West but contemporary in its themes and universal in its insights into the human heart."THE SEATTLE TIMES, PRAISE FOR THE WHISTLING SEASON"Flawless . . . The Whistling Season is a book that strives for more than beauty, which it achieves: It reaches for joy."—O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE"Luminous . . . Doig has given us yet another memorable tale set in the historical West but contemporary in its themes and universal in its insights into the human heart."—THE SEATTLE TIMES, PRAISE FOR THE WHISTLING SEASON "Flawless . . . The Whistling Season is a book that strives for more than beauty, which it achieves: It reaches for joy."--O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE "Luminous . . . Doig has given us yet another memorable tale set in the historical West but contemporary in its themes and universal in its insights into the human heart."--THE SEATTLE TIMES, PRAISE FOR IVAN DOIG "The reigning master of new Western literature . . . [Doig is] bigger than the Big Sky. He stands upon the shoulders of Wallace Stegner and A. B. Guthrie, taller than Edward Abbey and Tom McGuane, and sees much farther. He looks homeward, and he sees a place in all our minds, not just those who live in and write about the West."-- San Francisco Chronicle, PRAISE FOR THE WHISTLING SEASON"Flawless . . . The Whistling Season is a book that strives for more than beauty, which it achieves: It reaches for joy."--O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE"Luminous . . . Doig has given us yet another memorable tale set in the historical West but contemporary in its themes and universal in its insights into the human heart."--THE SEATTLE TIMES, PRAISE FOR THE WHISTLING SEASON "Flawless . . . The Whistling Season is a book that strives for more than beauty, which it achieves: It reaches for joy."'e"O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE "Luminous . . . Doig has given us yet another memorable tale set in the historical West but contemporary in its themes and universal in its insights into the human heart."'e"THE SEATTLE TIMES
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Synopsis"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. "Flawless...The Whistling Season is a book that strives for more than beauty, which it achieves, it reaches for joy."--O, the Oprah Magazine, "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. "Flawless... The Whistling Season is a book that strives for more than beauty, which it achieves, it reaches for joy."-- O, the Oprah Magazine, When Rose Llewellyn and her brother land in Marias Coulee, Montana, life in the town is never again the same in this "life-affirming" story from a master novelist of the American West ( Los Angeles Times Book Review )., 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., 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.
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- 01. Feb. 2017
The Whistling Season
This story captured my attention from the beginning. Well developed and strong characters, excellent!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 26. Jul. 2016
Great Read
Excellent writer. You feel like you are right in the middle of everything.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 20. Mai. 2024
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