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The Whistling Season (Morrie Morgan #1)

Ivan Doig

Hardcover | Pages: 345 pages

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Title	:	The Whistling Season (Morrie Morgan #1)
Author	:	Ivan Doig
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 345 pages
Published	:	June 1st 2006 by Houghton Mifflin
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Westerns. Young Adult. Coming Of Age

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"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.

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Original Title:	The Whistling Season
ISBN:	0151012377 (ISBN13: 9780151012374)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Morrie Morgan #1, Two Medicine Country #7
Literary Awards:	ALA Alex Award (2007)

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Ivan Doig is a fine, fine writer. In The Whistling Season, he tells the story of a widower living with his three sons on a dry farm in rural eastern Montana. He reads an advertisement for a woman living in the East who would like a housekeeping job and is willing to relocate to Montana. The ad states she doesn't cook, but she also doesn't bite. Rose comes to Montana to be the Millirons housekeeper and brings her brother, Morris, with her. This is a fine set-up for what could have been some

After you reach an age where you have enough history to look back on as an elder to your young self, there is a tendency to do soseeing things from a perspective you could not have known and aware of your limitations at the time. Sometimes my experience doing this is so vivid that I wonder if, in the truth of nonlinear time that physicists posit is real, young me is sensing old me and if this was the whispers I remember hearing as a kidwhat I secretly called "my old woman in the sky." Maybe I

I was charmed by this book when I first started reading it. Something about the story and the nostalgic narrative reminded me a little of To Kill a Mockingbird. But unlike that classic, this book didn't have the depth or a focal point such as the racial inequality in a Southern town and the resulting injustices. Instead, this book had a middle-aged narrator looking back to his childhood in Montana during 1909, in a warm-hearted story about a widowed father and his three sons doing their best to

Why didnt I come across Ivan Doig before? This novel is absolutely beautiful, great writing, full of humor and unforgettable characters, this book is going straight to my favorites shelf.

This is my first venture into Doigs fiction. He is known as the definitive novelist of Montana, in the same way that Pat Conroy is the writer most associated with South Carolina. In anticipation of visiting Montana later this year (2010), it seemed appropriate to see what Doig had to say about the place. Of course, it might have required a bit of a time machine to step into the world depicted here. Maybe like reading Mary Poppins to get a sense of London. Brothers Paul, Damon and Toby Milliron

Reading this story made me wonder again what are the stories we want to tell about our country's history and the people who settled the west? Doig reminds us that many of the homesteaders were intelligent, inquisitive and adventurous, all willing to work harder than most of us can imagine to live a full life and what we came to call the American dream - to claim land of their own. This novel reminds me of Wallace Stegner in the way the author richly describes the life of the mind of the

I enjoyed reading the book, and found the writing to be very good. But it's the kind of read that, when I'm finished, I know I will never be tempted to reread. Just wasn't that special.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Previous review: The Weather MakersNext review: The French Revolution CarlyleMore review: On Native Grounds of American literature and writersPrevious library review: Stones for Ibarra DoerrNext library review: Disaster Was My God Duffy