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Pros
Heart earth is an autobiographical coda to ivan doig's 1978 memoir of growing up in montana. It is an affectionate tale of decent, hard-working folks, eking out an existence in a grand yet fiercely challenging pocket of this country.
This book just flows effortlessly. He is the only author who made the san francisco chronicle's top 100 fictional and top 100 non-fictional best western novels of the 20th century lists. His prose style and his heart come through in every novel. A chr... Read More
Dancing at the rascal fair is #1 followed by english creek, my favorite. Set in remote montana, it tells of a fierce struggle to survive economic hard times and worse weather. No need to be a native of montana tothoroughly love every page of this one.... Read More
Cons
Heart earth is boring and densely-written.
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Quality
The easy flow of his writing and the heart and feeling that flows with it the little boy kiting down the prickly peared hill in... Read More
The style is vintage doig dense allusive even poetic as he evokes a distant time place and culture
Good but not the depth of the whisling season
Packaging/appearance
34 so years after the gift i opened it and found myself totally taken in by it
The book is drawn in part from a packet of letters his mother wrote and which was willed to doig by an uncle
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- This product had a total of 174 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 24 2024.
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They are also her own last months dying as she does of heart failure in a high altitude sheep camp where she has been spending a summer with her husband and young son the author
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This is a short book compared to his other fiction and nonfiction really more like an appendix to his memoir of growing up 34this house of sky
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Whats not to like when ivan doig writes a great book
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When does ivan doug write something that doesnt touch the soul
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Enjoyed it unable to pay for it
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Good but not the depth of the whisling season
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Berneta doig beset from birth with debilitating asthma and the limitations it imposed convinced her older and becomingly solicitous husband charley that they should try to have a child
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Having won the gamble berneta was not about to train ivan as a mamas boy
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