The Whistling Season, Ivan Doig
The Whistling Season, Ivan Doig
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The Whistling Season

Author: Ivan Doig

Narrator: Jonathan Hogan

Unabridged: 11 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/09/2006


Synopsis

Author of 11 books, including a finalist for the National Book Award, Ivan Doig is hailed as the “West’s preeminent literary novelist” by The Denver Post. A Montana native and respected historian, Doig leavens this tale of the prairie frontier with wonderful humor.

In 1909, struggling to farm his remote homestead and raise three sons, widower Oliver Milliron desperately needs help. A housekeeper’s ad in a Milwaukee newspaper, “Can’t cook but doesn’t bite,” leads him to hire her sight unseen.

When perky Rose Llewellyn arrives, she brings along her brainy brother, Morris.

Though Rose whistles through her work at the Milliron house, and Morris becomes teacher at the one-room school, these two newcomers conceal a past that is colorful and infamous.

Told through the eyes of Oliver’s 13-year-old son, The Whistling Season is filled with humor, hardship, and surprising moments of discovery.

“The Whistling Season is a book to pass on to your favorite readers: a story of lives of active choice, lived actively.”—Publishers Weekly

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 Will on April 12, 2023

This is my first venture into Doig’s fiction. He is known as the definitive novelist of Montana, in the same way that Pat Conroy is the writer most associated with South Carolina. In anticipation of visiting Montana later this year (2010), it seemed appropriate to see what Doig had to say about the......more

Goodreads review by Betsy on July 29, 2018

After you reach an age where you have enough history to look back on as an elder to your young self, there is a tendency to do so—seeing things from a perspective you could not have known and aware of your limitations at the time. Sometimes my experience doing this is so vivid that I wonder if, in t......more

Goodreads review by Magrat on March 17, 2018

3,5/5 Aunque me decepcionó el final, la mayor parte del libro lo disfruté un montón. Es una historia sencilla y tranquila sobre un viudo con 3 hijos a principios del siglo XX en Montana, el mundo de la escuela rural es el epicentro de la historia y ese punto nostálgico me conquistó.......more

Goodreads review by Elena on April 18, 2018

3,5-4* En esta entrañable historia, Paul nos cuenta su infancia junto a sus hermanos viviendo en las solitarias y áridas tierras del Lejano Oeste (concretamente Montana) de principios del siglo XX. Aunque el desenlace me ha parecido un pelín forzado y con algunos detalles que no creo que fueran necesa......more