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Pros

Ivan doig is a craftsman both of words and characters. His colorful characters and their shenanigans make doig’s books a fun romp. This novel is typical of doig's style of easy reading with intricate lessons to be learned.

The characters seem real, with hidden depths and secrets carefully doled out in the plot. The character development draws you into the story and the character's lives. This is a story that made me smile, wonder, and produced a lump in my * from both a...  Read More



Cons

An example of how doig focuses on the wrong things is when one of the characters get into a mess of ticks, which isn’t even interesting. Too long involvement with the children. Seemed rather far-fetched to me.

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Quality


Here’s one dad who takes being a father seriously despite what society might have made of him at the time


I loved this book’s description of mt my home state and the relationship between these two 12 year olds


No sugar coating simply real people with hearts as big and needy as the rest of us


It has been a great break from this difficult year we are experiencing

Shipping


Received the book promptly and in the condition advertised


Not in a hurry to get anywhere fast but beautifully told on the way there

Overview

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    good, rusty, great and loved.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 78.1% of the reviews are reliable.
  • This product had a total of 3,101 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 24 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Read anything by him and youll fall in love with the characters


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    A bit of american grit see it through hard times or not survive


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I could read 34the grapes of wrath34 or i could read 34the bartenders tale34


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I enjoy ivan doigs story telling and this was no exception


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Characters are not characters but human struggles with the hand they are dealt


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The novel concerns the summer when rusty was 12 when he finds his first female best friend considers a possible future career and discovers that he may have an older sister


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It has several twists and turns

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