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LAST BUS TO WISDOM
By: 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 Doigβs beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-oldβs imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for βfemale troubleβ 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 Kateβbossy, opinionated, argumentative, and tyrannicalβis nothing like her sister. She henpecks her good-natured husband, Herman the German, and Donal canβt 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 isnβt 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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