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  • This House of Sky

  • Landscapes of a Western Mind
  • By: Ivan Doig
  • Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
  • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
  • Unabridged
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A nominee for the National Book Award, Ivan Doig's brilliant memoir shares the experiences and culture that shaped his early years and made him fall in love with the West. From his childhood in a family of homesteaders through the death of his mother and his move to Montana to herd sheep, Doig shows his intimate connection with the American West.

  • 4 out of 5 stars

  • Early work by a favorite author

  • By Doggy Bird on 09-06-14
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  • Sweet Thunder: A Novel

  • By: Ivan Doig
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
  • Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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    4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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In the winter of 1920, a quirky bequest draws Morrie Morgan back to Butte, Montana, from a year-long honeymoon with his bride, Grace. But the mansion bestowed by a former boss upon the itinerant charmer, debuted in Doig’s best-selling book The Whistling Season, promises to be less a windfall than a money pit. And the town itself, with its polyglot army of miners struggling to extricate themselves from the stranglehold of the ruthless Anaconda Copper Mining Company, seems - like the couple’s fast-diminishing finances—on the verge of implosion.

  • 4 out of 5 stars

  • Another great story from Doig

  • By Lorna on 05-08-14
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  • Last Bus to Wisdom

  • A Novel
  • By: Ivan Doig
  • Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
  • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 901
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    4.5 out of 5 stars 824
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    4.5 out of 5 stars 822

The final novel from a great American storyteller. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Ivan Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an 11-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin.

  • 5 out of 5 stars

  • Such a lovely final book.

  • By B.J. on 02-26-16
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  • The Whistling Season

  • By: Ivan Doig
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
  • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
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    4.5 out of 5 stars 672

When a widowed rancher hires a housekeeper to help with his three young sons, he finds her to be cheerful and competent. Yet she is concealing a colorful and infamous past. Filled with humor and hardship, this novel sings with what the author calls "a poetry of the vernacular". A finalist for the National Book award, Ivan Doig, who has published 11 books, has been hailed as the "West's preeminent literary novelist" by the Denver Post.

  • 4 out of 5 stars

  • Wordplay

  • By Rick Just on 12-21-06
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  • English Creek

  • The Montana Trilogy, Book 1
  • By: Ivan Doig
  • Narrated by: Scott Sowers
  • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars 373
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    4.5 out of 5 stars 307
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    4.5 out of 5 stars 304

Part of Ivan Doig’s acclaimed Montana trilogy, English Creek revolves around Jick McCaskill, a 14-year-old growing up in 1930s Montana. This incandescent coming-of-age tale dramatizes the climatic events of one summer that inevitably mark Jick’s awakening from childhood to adulthood.

  • 4 out of 5 stars

  • Read this as book two and Dancing as book one

  • By Jan on 05-21-13
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  • The Bartender's Tale

  • By: Ivan Doig
  • Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
  • Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4.5 out of 5 stars 724
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    4.5 out of 5 stars 652

The Bartender' s Tale stars Tom Harry and his 12-year-old son, Rusty, who live alone and run a bar in a small Montana town in the early 1960s. Their lives are upended when Proxy, a woman from Tom's past, and her beatnik daughter, Francine, breeze into town. 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.

  • 5 out of 5 stars

  • a sweet, old fashioned coming-of-age story

  • By Mark on 04-07-13

Publisher's Summary

National Book Award finalist Ivan Doig had only a vague memory of his mother until he discovered a cache of her letters. They revealed a passionate, can-do woman who loved the lilting rhythm of words. A moving prequel to his acclaimed memoir This House of Sky, Doig’s Heart Earth highlights his childhood before his mother’s death and eloquently captures the texture of the American West, the fortunes of a family, and one woman’s indomitable spirit.
©1993 Ivan Doig (P)2010 Recorded Books, LLC

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“Another profoundly original and lustrous re-creation.” ( Kirkus Reviews)

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  • William
  • Dell, Montana, USA
  • 09-21-17

The Mother....

This one REALLY tugs at your heart strings. I really hated for this one to end.

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Beautifully Written

I have read this book and also listened to the audiobook. Both readings were magical. Mr. Doig paints a beautiful picture.

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Like a warm blanket on a chilly night.

I love Ivan Doig. Making my way through every one of them, some twice. Decided to try the audible.com version. Tom Stechschulte was made for Doig books, or lullabies or road maps. That deep voice and his changes of character are so good. I’ll be going back to my favorite Doig books to hear Tom read them. My only criticism is the book was too short.

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Sweet, sad, funny, poetic memoir of Doig's family

If you could sum up Heart Earth in three words, what would they be?

lyrical, insightful memoir

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I laughed out loud a few times, but was mostly in awe of Doig's ability to help me experience what he and his parents experienced during his childhood.

Any additional comments?

I love the way Doig concisely evokes a whole world of feeling; he sees such humor, poetry, and intensity in each moment and place. Somehow he notices everything.. A sweet, sad, funny memoir of his childhood and his mother.