Dancing at the Rascal Fair - Softcover

Doig, I.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684831058 ISBN 13: 9780684831053

Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD, 1996

Synopsis

From the award-winning author of "This House of Sky," a novel set in the great Montana highlands--a passionate and authentic chronicle of the American experience. "Magnificent."-- "Seattle Post Intelligencer"

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Review:

Michael Dorris The Seattle Times Magnificent....Dancing at the Rascal Fair further establishes its author in the front ranks of contemporary American wrriters.

Henry Kaisor Chicago Sun-Times Doig's prose is so muscular and sculpted, so simple and purposeful that I can think only of Edward Hoagland and Wallace Stegner as Doig's equals.

Lee K. Abbott The New York Times Book Review Against this masterfully evoked backdrop. Mr. Doig addresses his real subject: love between friends, between the sexes, between the generations....His is a prose as tight as a new thread and as special as handmade candy....Dancing at the Rascal Fair races with real vigor and wit and passion.

Pamela Guillard San Francisco Chronicle Dazzling...I find myself filled With such high praise for this book that instead of relating paltry bits of it, I want to quote the whole glorious thing....Doig plunges right in and, while giving us a gorgeous story, simultaneously peels that tale back to expose, the nubbins of human despair -- injustice, failure, and that incalculable restlessness exemplifled by the immigrant.

About the Author:

Ivan Doig (1939-2015) was a third-generation Montanan and the author of sixteen books, including the classic memoir This House of Sky and most recently Last Bus to Wisdom. He was a National Book Award finalist and received the Wallace Stegner Award, among many other honors. Doig lived in Seattle with his wife, Carol. Visit IvanDoig.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0684831058
• ISBN 13: 9780684831053
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416