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Rent The Whistling Season
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: May 2007
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $18.99
Pages: 352
Synopsis
Once again, Ivan Doig returns to rural Montana, the land of his youth, for this rich and quietly compelling novel. Paul Milliron, the state superintendent of schools, reminisces about 1909 and his childhood in a one-room schoolhouse. His father, a widowed farmer, and father of three boys, hires an unconventional and perpetually-whistling housekeeper, Rose Llewellyn, to tend to the house and children. In her tow comes her brother, Morris Morgan, a bookworm with a secret past who, when the school teacher elopes with a traveling preacher, takes charge of the local schoolhouse. These two extraordinary characters, along with a massive irrigation project, transform the small Montana town in ways both minor and profound. Doig writes with a simple lyricism, a plain-speaking beauty that never lapses into sentimentality.
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