Harcourt, Inc.
Available: 05/01/07
5.31 x 8 · 352 pages
978-0-15-603164-6 CDN $15.95 · pb

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The Whistling Season

A Novel

Ivan Doig

When the schoolmarm runs off with an itinerant preacher, Morris Morgan is pressed into service. This sets the stage for the “several kinds of education” Morris and his ever-whistling, noncooking, nonbiting, “A-1 housekeeper” sister Rose will bring to widower Oliver Milliron, his three sons and the rambunctious students in the 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.

“What distinguishes Doig’s writing is that, like Dickens, he creates his sentimental worlds not just to entertain but to educate. Painstaking craftsmanship is also evident on each page.” (Winnipeg Free Press)

Ivan Doig (Seattle) is the author of Prairie Nocturne and Dancing at the Rascal Fair. He is a former ranch hand, newspaperman and magazine editor.