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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.
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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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read this as book two and Dancing as book one
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,240
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,127
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,122
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 953
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5 out of 5 stars
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a sweet, old fashioned coming-of-age story
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- Unabridged
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 174
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 172
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Acclaimed for his beloved Montana trilogy, National Book Award finalist Ivan Doig crafts masterful portraits of life in rural Big Sky Country. Set in the 1930s, Bucking the Sun follows the Duff clan during the construction of the Fort Peck Dam. Hugh Duff is angry that the dam will flood his farm, yet his sons hasten to get jobs working on the project.
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Another great Doig!
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The Eleventh Man
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Driven by the memory of a fallen teammate, TSU's 1941 starting lineup made Montana football history, charging through the season undefeated. Two years later, the "Supreme Team" is caught up in World War II. Ten of them are scattered around the globe in the war's various lonely and dangerous theaters. The 11th man, Ben Reinking, has been plucked from pilot training by a military propaganda machine hungry for heroes.
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Didn't really care for it.
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Mountain Time
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Time in the Mountains.
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Loved it.
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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.
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An operatic cast; a wildly inventive work.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not his best but not bad
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The number-one New York Times best-selling author of A Man Called Ove shares an irresistible and moving collection of heartfelt, humorous essays about fatherhood, providing his newborn son with the perspective and tools he’ll need to make his way in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hilarious love letter to his son.
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Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who’s fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cody Hoyt is GREAT!
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A River Runs Through It is a universal story of family love and a lyrical masterpiece, as beautiful as the great trout rivers of western Montana upon which it is set. Its beauty is especially evident through the "near-perfect match" of reader Ivan Doig and author Norman MacLean.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lyrical - wonderfully done
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5 out of 5 stars
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deeply moving rollercoaster ride
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Publisher's Summary
National Book Award finalist and Wallace Stegner Award winner Ivan Doig has garnered critical and popular acclaim for his vibrant, authentic tales of the American West. In Work Song he takes listeners to Butte, Montana, in 1919 for the tale of one charmer’s efforts to elude Chicago gangsters.
Stepping off the train in the world’s copper mining capital, Morris Morgan secures a room at the boarding house of an attractive widow he’d like to know better. As the erudite Morris begins working at the local library, he tries not to take sides in the labor dispute at the Anaconda Mining Company. But when he’s mistaken for an undercover union operative, he’s soon caught up in the seething ferment of an iron-fisted company, radical union agitators, and beleaguered miners.
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- cjwheeler
- Junction City, Oregon
- 03-14-12
Very Good
I read the whistling season a few years back and really liked the book. I liked the writing/prose and the story. I have read a couple of other books Ivan Doig and liked one and hated the other( the eleventh Man ).
Morie was a great character in the whistling season and he is brought back as the main character in this book. He steps off the train and into this book with all his wit, charm and brass knuckles. How could such an educated man be working in a mining town as a undertakers cryer? only Morris Morgan can.
I thing Ivan Doig is a great story teller. He brought the city to life in my mine and it was if I could have been right there and felt the blast of dynamite under the boarding house. When I heard "Ignoramus, I am the librarian!" I knew that Ivan had Created another larger than life character in Samuel S. Sandison. Maybe he will write his story next
I thought the Narrator did a great job. His voice was just right for the book. Good tone and inflection and no grandiose, over the top reading.
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- Elizabeth
- Bellevue, WA, United States
- 12-23-12
good follow-up to The Whistling Season
This was a great continuation of the story Doig began in "The Whistling Season," although I wish I had known about this book when I listened to WS several years ago so that I remembered the original story better. Doig weaves a wonderful tale and you continue to connect with Mortie as he now finds himself in Butte, MT. Whose life will he change? How will his life change? What problems might he cause? What odd facts might he spout? Read this book and continue to enjoy.
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- David Burton
- 03-20-19
Fantastic book
For decades I have said that Mark Twain and Charles Dickens are my favorite authors. I am now adding a third author. I have Ivan Doig. I am a sucker for historical fiction. And theses three books that make up this trilogy are among the best I have ever read. Humor, intrigue, fully developed characters, a tremendous use of language, set around the historical west in Montana, these books are hard to put down. This last month has been made better by the journey I was taken on by reading The Whistling Season, Work Song and Sweet Thunder.
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- Jeff Sisco
- Morristown, NJ, USA
- 02-14-19
Great time in Butte
While I've never actually set foot in that copper-tinged town I now feel that I've been there and lived there and more.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-05-18
Loved the story
Loved the story as well as the narration. Jonathan Hogan gave a spectacular performance of this wonderful Ivan Doig story. This is the second book in the trilogy,. I look forward to hearing more about Morrie Mogan and Montana in Sweet Thunder.
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- haner
- Washington State
- 01-19-17
Another dandy!
I quite liked this. Not my favorite reader, but the story was smooth. Now to go back and listen to Sweet Thunder!