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Last Bus to Wisdom
Ivan Doig
Riverhead Books
August 2016
On Sale: August 16, 2016
480 pages
ISBN: 110198256X
EAN: 9781101982563
Kindle: B00SI02A66
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Historical
The final novel from a great American storyteller. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook
at the legendary Double W ranch in Ivan Doig’s beloved Two
Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that
gives full rein to an eleven-year-old’s imagination. But
when Gram has to have surgery for “female trouble” in the
summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off
to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin. There Donal
is in for a rude surprise: Aunt Kate–bossy, opinionated,
argumentative, and tyrannical—is nothing like her sister.
She henpecks her good-natured husband, Herman the German,
and Donal can’t seem to get on her good side either. After
one contretemps too many, Kate packs him back to the
authorities in Montana on the next Greyhound. But as it
turns out, Donal isn’t traveling solo: Herman the German has
decided to fly the coop with him. In the immortal American
tradition, the pair light out for the territory together,
meeting a classic Doigian ensemble of characters and having
rollicking misadventures along the way. Charming, wise, and slyly funny, Last Bus to Wisdom
is a last sweet gift from a writer whose books have bestowed
untold pleasure on countless readers.
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