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"Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper" that draws the attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so also begins the unforgettable season that deposits the noncooking, nonbiting, ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her font-of-knowledge brother, Morris Morgan, in Marias Coulee, Montana. 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.
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PRAISE FOR THE WHISTLING SEASON"Flawless . . . The Whistling Season is a book that strives for more than beauty, which it achieves: It reaches for joy."O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE"Luminous . . . Doig has given us yet another memorable tale set in the historical West but contemporary in its themes and universal in its insights into the human heart."THE SEATTLE TIMES"
PRAISE FOR THE WHISTLING SEASON
"Flawless . . . The Whistling Season is a book that strives for more than beauty, which it achieves: It reaches for joy." O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE
"Luminous . . . Doig has given us yet another memorable tale set in the historical West but contemporary in its themes and universal in its insights into the human heart." THE SEATTLE TIMES"
PRAISE FOR THE WHISTLING SEASON
"Flawless . . . The Whistling Season is a book that strives for more than beauty, which it achieves: It reaches for joy."--O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE
"Luminous . . . Doig has given us yet another memorable tale set in the historical West but contemporary in its themes and universal in its insights into the human heart."--THE SEATTLE TIMES
About the Author:
PRAISE FOR THE WHISTLING SEASON
"Flawless . . . The Whistling Season is a book that strives for more than beauty, which it achieves: It reaches for joy." O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE
"Luminous . . . Doig has given us yet another memorable tale set in the historical West but contemporary in its themes and universal in its insights into the human heart." THE SEATTLE TIMES"
PRAISE FOR THE WHISTLING SEASON
"Flawless . . . The Whistling Season is a book that strives for more than beauty, which it achieves: It reaches for joy."--O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE
"Luminous . . . Doig has given us yet another memorable tale set in the historical West but contemporary in its themes and universal in its insights into the human heart."--THE SEATTLE TIMES
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.
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- PublisherPerfection Learning
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1606861549
- ISBN 13 9781606861547
- BindingLibrary Binding
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