Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches. This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind Montana: High, Wide, and Handsome is widely recognized as a classic history and delightful ode to the idiosyncratic personalities, restless landscape, unforgettable peoples, and lively history of the Treasure State. In these pages you will come to fall in love with a ruggedly diverse and strikingly beautiful state, a land that takes hold and won’t let go. And in the end, it is the river that makes them realize that life continues and all things are related.
It is the one activity where his family can bridge troubled relationships, where brother can connect with brother and father with son. Norman Maclean’s memories about growing up in Montana revolve around mighty trout rivers and the four-count rhythm of fly fishing. Click the title or cover of the book to buy it on Amazon! A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
We will continually add to this list, so check back for your next read, whenever that may be. If you’re headed to the lake, about to take a long flight, or just want to read up on the best state in the Union, this is the list for you. The Montana Mint is proud to bring to you the “Greatest Books Ever Written About Montana.” The list includes something for everyone: fiction/nonfiction, old/new, serious/fun, and a lot of Ivan Doig. Pamela Guillard San Francisco Chronicle Dazzling.I find myself filled With such high praise for this book that instead of relating paltry bits of it, I want to quote the whole glorious thing.Doig plunges right in and, while giving us a gorgeous story, simultaneously peels that tale back to expose, the nubbins of human despair - injustice, failure, and that incalculable restlessness exemplifled by the immigrant.By Montana Mint Staff The Greatest Books Ever Written About Montana Dancing at the Rascal Fair races with real vigor and wit and passion. Doig addresses his real subject: love between friends, between the sexes, between the generations.His is a prose as tight as a new thread and as special as handmade candy. Abbott The New York Times Book Review Against this masterfully evoked backdrop.
Henry Kaisor Chicago Sun-Times Doig's prose is so muscular and sculpted, so simple and purposeful that I can think only of Edward Hoagland and Wallace Stegner as Doig's equals. Dancing at the Rascal Fair further establishes its author in the front ranks of contemporary American wrriters. Michael Dorris The Seattle Times Magnificent.
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