English Creek (Montana Trilogy) - Softcover

Doig, Ivan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743271270 ISBN 13: 9780743271271

Publisher: Scribner Book Company, 2005

Synopsis

In this prize-winning portrait of a time and place--Montana in the 1930s--that at once inspires and fulfills a longing for an explicable past, Ivan Doig has created one of the most captivating families in American fiction, the McCaskills.

The witty and haunting narration, a masterpiece of vernacular in the tradition of Twain, follows the events of the Two Medicine country's summer: the tide of sheep moving into the high country, the capering Fourth of July rodeo and community dance, and an end-of-August forest fire high in the Rockies that brings the book, as well as the McCaskill family's struggle within itself, to a stunning climax. It is a season of escapade as well as drama, during which fourteen-year-old Jick comes of age. Through his eyes we see those nearest and dearest to him at a turning point--"where all four of our lives made their bend"--and discover along with him his own connection to the land, to history, and to the deep-fathomed mysteries of one's kin and one's self.

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Review:

"Commonly compared with Paul Horgan and Wallace Stegner...Doig seems something else. A truer comparison might be with Robert Louis Stevenson because of Doig's magical welding of history into fiction, of adventure with everyday life, of legend with lore."
-- The Washington Post

"Here is the real Montana, the real West, through the eyes of a real writer."
-- Wallace Stegner

"Sheer magic...simply a national treasure."
-- USA Today

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: Scribner Book Company
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0743271270
• ISBN 13: 9780743271271
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352