The Whistling Season Contributor(s): Doig, Ivan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0156031647 ISBN-13: 9780156031646 Publisher: Mariner Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: May 2007 Annotation: Ivan Doig is the author of ten previous books, including the novels "Prairie Nocturne" and "Dancing at the Rascal Fair." A former ranch hand, newspaperman, and magazine editor, Doig holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Washington. He lives in Seattle. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" L (0.60 lbs) 352 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Montana |
Features: Ikids, Price on Product |
Review Citations: New York Times 06/17/2007 pg. 24 |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 114670 Reading Level: 6.8 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 18.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Doig, Ivan: - Ivan Doig (1939-2015) was born in Montana and grew up along the Rocky Mountain Front, the dramatic landscape that has inspired much of his writing. A recipient of a lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western Literature Association, he is the author of fifteen novels and four works of nonfiction. |
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