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The Whistling Season
Ivan Doig
Harcourt
June 2006
On Sale: June 1, 2006
352 pages
ISBN: 0151012377
EAN: 9780151012374
Hardcover
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Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad
offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper, sound morals,
exceptional disposition" that draws the hungry attention of
widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so begins
the unforgettable season that deposits the noncooking,
nonbiting, ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her
font-of-knowledge brother, Morris Morgan, in Marias Coulee
along with a stampede of homesteaders drawn by the promise
of the Big Ditch-a gargantuan irrigation project intended to
make the Montana prairie bloom. When the schoolmarm runs off
with an itinerant preacher, Morris is pressed into service,
setting the stage for the "several kinds of education"-none
of them of the textbook variety-Morris and Rose will bring
to Oliver, his three sons, and the rambunctious students in
the region's one-room schoolhouse. A paean to a vanished way of life and the eccentric
individuals and idiosyncratic institutions that made it
fertile, The Whistling Season is Ivan Doig at his evocative
best.
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