The Whistling Season

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

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

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

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