| This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind Contributor(s): Doig, Ivan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0156899825 ISBN-13: 9780156899826 Publisher: Mariner Books Classics OUR PRICE: $18.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1980 Annotation: This work introduced a major modern author to the reading public. Doig's life was formed among the sheepherders and other denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches as he wandered beside his restless father. New Preface by the Author. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 79018783 |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 5.4" W x 8.08" (0.58 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Plains - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Montana |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A haunting, magnificently written memoir by Ivan Doig about growing up in the American West
Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches. What he deciphers from his past with piercing clarity is not only a raw sense of land and how it shapes us but also of the ties to our mothers and fathers, to those who love us, and our inextricable connection to those who shaped our values in our search for intimacy, independence, love, and family. A powerfully told story, This House of Sky is at once especially American and universal in its ability to awaken a longing for an explicable past. |
Contributor Bio(s): Doig, Ivan: - Ivan Doig (1939-2015) was born in Montana and grew up along the Rocky Mountain Front, the dramatic landscape that has inspired much of his writing. A recipient of a lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western Literature Association, he is the author of fifteen novels and four works of nonfiction. |