Ivan Doig
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| Original Title: | The Whistling Season |
| ISBN: | 0151012377 (ISBN13: 9780151012374) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Morrie Morgan #1, Two Medicine Country #7 |
| Literary Awards: | ALA Alex Award (2007) |
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"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 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.Be Specific About Epithetical Books The Whistling Season (Morrie Morgan #1)
| Title | : | The Whistling Season (Morrie Morgan #1) |
| Author | : | Ivan Doig |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 345 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 2006 by Houghton Mifflin |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Westerns. Young Adult. Coming Of Age |
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Ratings: 4.03 From 16016 Users | 2499 ReviewsCritique Epithetical Books The Whistling Season (Morrie Morgan #1)
This book is one of my all time favorites. It is "poetry of the vernacular". If this story doesn't capture your heart you must be a snobbish city dweller who has no appreciation of America's rural past. The setting is rural Montana in 1909, a one-room grade school, and a family of three young boys and their father still mourning the death of their mother (and wife) the previous year. It takes a skilled writer to turn such a plain setting into one of the most enjoyable, interesting and humorous"The Whistling Season" takes place in the mid-west in the early 1900s. It is narrated by Paul a seventh grader who attends a one-room school house. His father is a widower and a farmer. The story is their struggle of living off the land and coping with loss. The tale takes a twist with the arrival of Rose the hired housekeeper who cant cook and her intellectual brother. The two add intrigue to the ordinary lives of the main character and his family. Doigs style is descriptive and he effectively
This is my first venture into Doigs fiction. He is known as the definitive novelist of Montana, in the same way that Pat Conroy is the writer most associated with South Carolina. In anticipation of visiting Montana later this year (2010), it seemed appropriate to see what Doig had to say about the place. Of course, it might have required a bit of a time machine to step into the world depicted here. Maybe like reading Mary Poppins to get a sense of London. Brothers Paul, Damon and Toby Milliron
Sometimes you just want a story of simplicity. You want to go to a place that reminds you of things about how you grew up and who you grew up among. You want a more recognizable time, even if the recognition is emotional rather than experiential. Maybe you just want a story that is a little less alienating than the one you find yourself in.The Whistling Season is a lovely book of this kind of unapologetic simplicity: the issues are of character and growth, the characters are quirky and complex,
Why have I never heard of this author? He is an amazing writer! (I liken him to Wallace Stegner, Leif Enger, Marilynne Robinson.) I thoroughly enjoyed reading this quiet, humorous, intelligent book about homesteaders in Montana in 1910. I love the narrator (a 13-year-old boy-genius). I love the story. I love, love, love the language. I'm going to read Ivan Doig again as soon as possible.
Ivan Doig writes about a vanished way of life on the Western plains with the kind of irony-free nostalgia that seems downright courageous in these ironic times. A celebration tinged with sadness, his new novel, The Whistling Season , tells a story twice removed from us: It's the late 1950s, and that little Soviet satellite has startled the United States into an educational panic. Paul Milliron, the narrator, is superintendent of the Montana schools, and he's come to Great Falls to make a sad
I enjoyed reading the book, and found the writing to be very good. But it's the kind of read that, when I'm finished, I know I will never be tempted to reread. Just wasn't that special.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Previous review: The Weather MakersNext review: The French Revolution CarlyleMore review: On Native Grounds of American literature and writersPrevious library review: Stones for Ibarra DoerrNext library review: Disaster Was My God Duffy
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