Work Song, Ivan Doig
Work Song, Ivan Doig
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Work Song

Author: Ivan Doig

Narrator: Jonathan Hogan

Unabridged: 9 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/05/2010


Synopsis

National Book Award finalist and Wallace Stegner Award winner Ivan Doig has garnered critical and popular acclaim for his vibrant, authentic tales of the American West. In Work Song he takes listeners to Butte, Montana, in 1919 for the tale of one charmer’s efforts to elude Chicago gangsters.

Stepping off the train in the world’s copper mining capital, Morris Morgan secures a room at the boarding house of an attractive widow he’d like to know better. As the erudite Morris begins working at the local library, he tries not to take sides in the labor dispute at the Anaconda Mining Company. But when he’s mistaken for an undercover union operative, he’s soon caught up in the seething ferment of an iron-fisted company, radical union agitators, and beleaguered miners.

“More atmospheric, pleasingly old-fashioned storytelling from Doig, whose ear for the way people spoke and thought in times gone by is as faultless as ever.”—Kirkus Reviews

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 robin

A Song Of Butte There has been increased interest in American westerns the past several years. I have enjoyed exploring the genre and was glad to read for the first time Ivan Doig, (1939 -- 2015) in his 2010 novel "Work Song". Set in Butte, Montana in 1919 this book is sweet and a delight. It has a s......more

Goodreads review by Jim

This sequel to Doig's wonderful novel, The Whistling Season, is a tasty morsel, a lagniappe rather than a substantial offering. Incongruously, Doig turns a tumultuous chapter in American history--the struggle between workingmen (miners) and big corporations (a mining company, in this instance) into......more