MOMENTAN AUSVERKAUFT
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-100151012377
ISBN-139780151012374
eBay Product ID (ePID)48631375
Product Key Features
Book TitleWhistling Season
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterary, Historical
Publication Year2006
GenreFiction
AuthorIvan Doig
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight21.5 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-025457
ReviewsPRAISE 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 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
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisCan'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 hungry attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so begins the unforgettable season that deposits the noncooking, nonbiting, 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 vanished way of life and the eccentric individuals and idiosyncratic institutions that made it fertile, The Whistling Season is Ivan Doig at his evocative best., 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.
LC Classification NumberPS3554.O415W48 2006
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- 18. Jul. 2022
One of Doig's best
Would rate it a 5, but hardly rate anything a 5. One of Doig's best novels, well researched, well written. If you like historical, coming of age stories about America's West, don't miss this one.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 22. Apr. 2020
Reading it now, great book great eBay value!
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- 03. Mär. 2021
Good book
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