Last Bus to Wisdom, Ivan Doig
Last Bus to Wisdom, Ivan Doig
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Last Bus to Wisdom

Author: Ivan Doig

Narrator: David Aaron Baker

Unabridged: 15 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/18/2015


Synopsis

The 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 think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin. There Donal is in for a rude surprise: Aunt Kate-bossy, opinionated, argumentative, and tyrannical-is nothing like her sister. She henpecks her good-natured husband, Herman the German, and Donal can't seem to get on her good side either. After one contretemps too many, Kate packs him back to the authorities in Montana on the next Greyhound. But as it turns out, Donal isn't traveling solo: Herman the German has decided to fly the coop with him. In the immortal American tradition, the pair light out for the territory together, meeting a classic Doigian ensemble of characters and having rollicking misadventures along the way. Charming, wise, and slyly funny, Last Bus to Wisdom is a last sweet gift from a writer whose books have bestowed untold pleasure on countless readers.

About Ivan Doig

Ivan Doig (1939-2015) was a third-generation Montanan and the author of sixteen books, including the classic memoir This House of Sky and most recently Last Bus to Wisdom. He was a National Book Award finalist and received the Wallace Stegner Award, among many other honors. Doig lived in Seattle with his wife, Carol. Visit IvanDoig.com.


Reviews

This is the first Ivan Doig book I’ve read. I’m not sure how he escaped my notice. LAST BUS TO WISDOM is Amazon’s Best Book of August 2015, thankfully. What a joyful read. It’s like comfort food for the mind. Doig spins an enchanting and sweet tale which keeps the reader entranced and well, warm and......more