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      English Creek

      by Ivan Doig
      Published
      Oct 1984
      Main Genre
      Historical Historical
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      352
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      Series
      The Montana Trilogy Book 1

      About This Book

      In this prize-winning portrait of a time and place—Montana in the 1930s—that at once inspires and fulfills a longing for an explicable past, Ivan Doig has created one of the most captivating families in American fiction, the McCaskills.

      The witty and haunting narration, a masterpiece of vernacular in the tradition of Twain, follows the events of the Two Medicine country's summer: the tide of sheep moving into the high country, the capering Fourth of July rodeo and community dance, and an end-of-August forest fire high in the Rockies that brings the book, as well as the McCaskill family's struggle within itself, to a stunning climax. It is a season of escapade as well as drama, during which fourteen-year-old Jick comes of age. Through his eyes we see those nearest and dearest to him at a turning point—"where all four of our lives made their bend"—and discover along with him his own connection to the land, to history, and to the deep-fathomed mysteries of one's kin and one's self.

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      General Fiction

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      Historical

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