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Books by Ivan Doig






Last Bus to Wisdom(Reprint)
A Novel (Two Medicine Country)
by Ivan Doig
Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 2016 by Riverhead Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-101-98256-3, ISBN: 1-101-98256-X

"Named a Best Book of the Year by the Seattle Times 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 she can thi ..."






The Bartender's Tale(Reprint)
(Two Medicine Country)
by Ivan Doig
Paperback, 414 Pages, Published 2013 by Riverhead Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-59463-148-1, ISBN: 1-59463-148-4

"From a great American storyteller, a one-of-a-kind father and his precocious son, rocked by a time of change. Tom Harry has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a venerable bar called The Medicine Lodge, the chief watering hole and last refuge of the town of Gros Ventre, in northern Montana. Tom also has a son named Rusty, an "accident between the sheets" whose mother deserted them both years ago.The pair make an odd kind of fam ..."






Ride with Me, Mariah Montana(Reprint)
(Montana Trilogy)
by Ivan Doig
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2005 by Scribner
Bargain Price
ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-7126-4, ISBN: 0-7432-7126-2

"This greathearted novel is the finale of Ivan Doig's passionate and authentic trilogy about the McCaskill family and their alluring Two Medicine country 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 o ..."






English Creek(Reprint)
(Montana Trilogy)
by Ivan Doig
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2005 by Scribner
Bargain Price
ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-7127-1, ISBN: 0-7432-7127-0

"In this prizewinning 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 ..."






Dancing at the Rascal Fair(Reprint)
by Ivan Doig
Paperback, 405 Pages, Published 1996 by Scribner
Bargain Price
ISBN-13: 978-0-684-83105-3, ISBN: 0-684-83105-8

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






This House of Sky - Landscapes of a Western Mind(1st Edition)
by Ivan Doig
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1980 by Mariner Books
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-15-689982-6, ISBN: 0-15-689982-5

"This haunting, magnificently written memoir introduced an important American writer. Now, in its Fifteenth Anniversary Edition, Ivan Doig's preface provides stirring details of the making of this memorable book. Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged, elemental Montana wilderness with his father, Charlie, and his grandmother, Bessie Ringer. His life was formed among the sheepherders and characters of small-town saloons and valley ranches as he ..."






The Whistling Season(1st Edition)
by Ivan Doig
Paperback, 345 Pages, Published 2007 by Harvest Books
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-15-603164-6, ISBN: 0-15-603164-7

"Novelist Ivan Doig revisits the American west in the early twentieth century, bringing to life the eccentric individuals and idiosyncratic institutions that made it thrive.   “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 attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. That unforgettable season deposits the ever-wh ..."






Mountain Time
A Novel
by Ivan Doig
Paperback, 316 Pages, Published 2000 by Scribner
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-684-86569-0, ISBN: 0-684-86569-6

"Celebrated for his stirring, clear-eyed memoirs and novels of Montana--Dancing at the Rascal Fair, This House of Sky, and most recently Bucking the Sun--Ivan Doig vaults over the mountains in his new novel and lands in the midst of Seattle's fin-de-siècle coffee and computer culture. Mitch Rozier is an oversized, Montana-born, divorced, fiftysomething environmental columnist for a once-hip weekly newspaper on the verge of going ..."






Heart Earth(Reprint)
A Memoir
by Ivan Doig
Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2016 by Scribner
ISBN-13: 978-1-5011-5605-2, ISBN: 1-5011-5605-5

"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 h ..."






Work Song
by Ivan Doig
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2011 by Riverhead Trade
ISBN-13: 978-1-59448-520-6, ISBN: 1-59448-520-8

""[A] novel that best expresses the American spirit." -Chicago Tribune A decade after he left Montana at the end of Ivan Doig's bestselling The Whistling Season, Morrie Morgan is back-this time in post- WWI Butte, the copper-mining capital of the world. When Morrie gets caught up in the mounting clash between the mining company, outside agitators, and the beleaguered miners, he finds a unique way to give a voice to those who truly need ..."






Work Song(1st Edition)
by Ivan Doig
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2010 by Riverhead Books
Unabridged
ISBN-13: 978-1-59448-762-0, ISBN: 1-59448-762-6

"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 ..."






The Eleventh Man(1st Edition)
by Ivan Doig
Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2008 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN-13: 978-0-15-101243-5, ISBN: 0-15-101243-1

"Driven by the memory of a fallen teammate, TSU’s 1941 starting lineup went down as legend in Montana football history, charging through the season undefeated. Two years later, the "Supreme Team" is caught up in World War II. Ten of them are scattered around the globe in the war’s various lonely and dangerous theaters. The eleventh man, Ben Reinking, has been plucked from pilot training by a military propaganda machine hungry for heroes. ..."






Prairie Nocturne(Reprint)
A Novel
by Ivan Doig
Paperback, 371 Pages, Published 2005 by Scribner
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-0136-0, ISBN: 0-7432-0136-1

"From one of the greatest novelists of the American West comes a surprising and riveting story set in Montana and New York during the Harlem Renaissance, drawing together an unlikely set of thwarted performers in one last inspired grasp at life's set of gold rings: love and renown.Susan Duff -- the bossy, indomitable schoolgirl with a silver voice from the pages of Doig's most popular work, Dancing at the Rascal Fair -- has reached middl ..."






BUCKING THE SUN(1st Edition)
A Novel
by Ivan Doig, Ivan Harry Mazerdoig
Paperback, 412 Pages, Published 1997 by Scribner
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-684-83149-7, ISBN: 0-684-83149-X

"Not since Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" has there been a family saga as powerful as "Bucking the Sun" or a family as compellingly strife-torn as the one at its center. Driven by drought from their Montana farm to "relief work" building the Fort Peck Dam, the Duff family spans the extremes of the times, from the eldest son Owen, who has made his way through college to an engineer's job on the dam to young Bruce, his antithesis, a ris ..."






Ride With Me Mariah Montana(1st Edition)
by Ivan Doig
Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 1990 by Macmillian Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-689-12019-0, ISBN: 0-689-12019-2

"The tale of a family of Scottish immigrants to Montana follows Jick McCaskill and his daughter Mariah on a tour through the state in the summer of its centennial year."






Sweet Thunder(Reprint)
(Two Medicine Country)
by Ivan Doig
Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2014 by Riverhead Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-59463-276-1, ISBN: 1-59463-276-6

" A beloved character brings the power of the press to 1920s Butte, Montana, in this latest from the best storyteller of the West In the winter of 1920, a quirky bequest draws Morrie Morgan back to Butte, Montana, from a year-long honeymoon with his bride, Grace. But the mansion bestowed by a former boss upon the itinerant charmer, who debuted in Doig’s bestselling The Whistling Season, promises to be less windfall than money pit. A ..."






The Eleventh Man(Reprint)
by Ivan Doig
Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2009 by Mariner Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-547-24763-2, ISBN: 0-547-24763-X

" Driven by the memory of a fallen teammate, TSU’s 1941 starting lineup went down as legend in Montana football history, charging through the season undefeated. Two years later, the "Supreme Team" is caught up in World War II. Ten of them are scattered around the globe in the war’s various lonely and dangerous theaters. The eleventh man, Ben Reinking, has been plucked from pilot training by a military propaganda machine ..."






Sweet Thunder
A Novel
by Ivan Doig
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2013 by Riverhead Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-1-59448-734-7, ISBN: 1-59448-734-0

"A beloved character brings the power of the press to 1920s Butte, Montana, in this latest from the best storyteller of the West In the winter of 1920, a quirky bequest draws Morrie Morgan back to Butte, Montana, from a year-long honeymoon with his bride, Grace. But the mansion bestowed by a former boss upon the itinerant charmer, who debuted in Doig’s bestselling The Whistling Season, promises to be less windfall than money pit. And the ..."






The Bartender's Tale(1st Edition)
by Ivan Doig
Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2012 by Riverhead Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-59448-735-4, ISBN: 1-59448-735-9

" From a great American storyteller, a one-of-a-kind father and his precocious son, rocked by a time of change. Tom Harry has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a venerable bar called The Medicine Lodge, the chief watering hole and last refuge of the town of Gros Ventre, in northern Montana. Tom also has a son named Rusty, an “accident between the sheets” whose mother deserted them both years ago.The pair make an odd kind of f ..."






Work Song(Large Print)
(Basic)
by Ivan Doig
Hardcover, 414 Pages, Published 2010 by Thorndike Press
Large Print
ISBN-13: 978-1-4104-3252-0, ISBN: 1-4104-3252-1

"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 Seas ..."



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