National Book Award Finalist: A "beautifully written, deeply felt" memoir about growing up in the American West ( Los Angeles Times).Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches. What he deciphers from his past with piercing clarity is not only a raw sense of land and how it shapes us, but also of the ties to our mothers and fathers, to those who love us, and our ...

After Pearl Harbor, the lives of eleven Montana college football teammates are changed forever in an "intensely suspenseful and moving" novel (Scott Turow).In the early 1940s, the starting lineup of Treasure State University's football team are local heroes. But as America is pulled into World War II, they feel called to become heroes of another kind.Now, ten of them are scattered around the globe in the war's lonely and dangerous theaters. The eleventh man...

An award-winning and beloved novelist of the American West spins the further adventures of a favorite character, in one of his richest historical settings yet."If America was a melting pot, Butte would be its boiling point," observes Morrie Morgan, the itinerant teacher, walking encyclopedia, and inveterate charmer last seen leaving a one-room schoolhouse in Marias Coulee, the stage he stole in Ivan Doig's 2006 The Whistling Season. A decade later, Morrie is back in Montan...

**Named a Best Book of the Year by the Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Kirkus ReviewThe 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 eleven-year-old’s imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for “female trouble” in the summer of 1951, all s...

The central volume in Ivan Doig’s acclaimed Montana trilogy, Dancing at the Rascal Fair is an authentic saga of the American West at the turn of this century and a passionate portrayal of the Scottish immigrants who dared to try new lives in the imposing Rocky Mountains.Ivan Doig’s supple tale of homesteaders and ranching life unfolds into a fateful contest of the heart between Anna Ramsay and Angus McCaskill, walled apart by their obligations as they and ...

This greathearted novel is the finale of Ivan Doig’s passionate and authentic trilogy about the McCaskill family and their alluring Two Medicine country in Montana along the hem of the northern Rockies.Jick McCaskill, the illustrious narrator of English Creek, returns as the witty and moving voice in this classic encounter with the American road and all the rewards and travails it can bring. Jick faces his family’s—and his state’s—legacy of loss and perseverance fr...

“No cocina, pero tampoco muerde”. Así comienza el anuncio en el que Rose Llewellyn, una viuda de “buenas costumbres y disposición excepcional”, se ofrece en el otoño de 1909 como ama de llaves; la frase capta de inmediato la atención de Oliver Milliron, un viudo con tres hijos y poca maña en las tareas domésticas, que la contrata para poner un poco de orden en su casa de Marias Coulee, Montana.Y así comienza también la inolvidable temporada que Rose y su hermano Morris, un dandi sa...

Ivan Doig’s companion memoir to his bestselling This House of Sky—inspired by the letters his mother wrote during World War II—is “a lyrical evocation of the Doigs’ gallantly hardscrabble existence and love for the unforgiving Montana mountains” (San Francisco Chronicle).Raised by his father and maternal grandmother, Ivan Doig grew up with only a vague memory of his mother, who died on his sixth birthday. Then he discovered a cache of her letters,...

Un padre. Un figlio. Una terra selvaggia del Montana. La straordinaria memoria familiare di Ivan Doig attraversa tre generazioni, tra perdite dolorose e legami indissolubili, in un viaggio emozionante attraverso i paesaggi mozzafiato dell’Ovest americano.Tra le vaste praterie del Montana e le aspre Montagne Rocciose, Ivan Doig ripercorre la storia della sua famiglia attraverso ricordi vividi e struggenti. Dal rapporto complesso con suo padre Charlie, un allevatore di pecore dalla fo...

Bucking the Sun is the story of the Duff family, homesteaders driven from the Montana bottomland to work on one of the New Deal’s most audacious projects—the damming of the Missouri River.Through the story of each family member—a wrathful father, a mettlesome mother, and three very different sons, and the memorable women they marry—Doig conveys a sense of time and place that is at once epic in scope and rich in detail.

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 c...

Donal Cameron, undici anni e una chioma sbarazzina di capelli rossi, è rimasto orfano e vive con la nonna, cuoca del ranch Double W di Gros Ventre, in Montana. Quando la nonna, però, è costretta a lasciare il lavoro e il suo alloggio per sottoporsi a una delicata operazione, il ragazzo viene mandato a passare l’estate in Wisconsin, ospite di una coppia di zii che non ha mai visto in vita sua. È il 1951, e Donal monta per la prima volta, a malincuore, su una corriera, per affrontare le mill...