Ivan Doig wrote literary and historical fiction about Montana, immigration and communities shaped by work and landscape. This House of Sky is a memoir of growing up among ranchers and sheep country in Montana, while English Creek begins a trilogy following the McCaskill family through Depression-era rural life. Dancing at the Rascal Fair goes back to Scottish immigrants building new lives in Montana, and The Whistling Season centres on a one-room schoolhouse and a family changed by the arrival of a housekeeper and her brother. Doig's prose is detailed and place-centred without treating the West as simple adventure country. His work fits Western literary fiction, Montana history, immigrant stories and rural family sagas. Read more Less
No products in the cart.