The Eleventh Man

Name: The Eleventh Man
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Ivan Doig
ISBN: 9781436185158

Author: Ivan Doig

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte

Unabridged: 13 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/31/2008

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Driven by the memory of a fallen teammate, TSU's 1941 starting lineup made 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. Man by man, he is to chronicle the adventures of his teammates for small-town newspapers across the country, like the one his father edits. Ready for action, he chafes at the assignment, little dreaming that it will bring him love from an unexpected quarter and put to the test the law of averages, which holds that all but one of his teammates should come through the conflict unscathed. A deeply American story, The Eleventh Man is Ivan Doig's most powerful novel to date.

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

Goodreads review by Cherisa on November 15, 2024

A little slow to start and too much football for my taste, but then the story really started cranking up. Doig gives us insights into multiple aspects of the US war efforts in the years 1943 and '44 through the work of a young and specially commissioned military journalist. Lots to appreciate in the......more

Goodreads review by Tim on October 14, 2009

"Sure, you could believe for all you were worth that you were too young and fit and lucky to be chased down by death, but all of accumulated history yawns back, 'Why not you?'" — from "The Eleventh Man" Ivan Doig's previous novel, the terrific "The Whistling Season" (2006) casts a long shadow, and "T......more

Goodreads review by Lucy on February 06, 2009

Sometimes, I know exactly how I'll review a book and can hardly wait to get my thoughts down. Other times, like, this time in particular, a book is so lost in that foggy middle between good and bad, that my thoughts never seem articulate. I've avoided writing about The Eleventh Man, by Ivan Doig, fo......more

Goodreads review by Garth on October 14, 2020

Number 8 in Doig’s Two Medicine Country Series. I’ve liked the first three books in the series and this one is as good as the others. His portrayal of small town life makes the prosaic interesting. The War Correspondent here spends considerable time in an illicit affair with a married female pilot.......more