![]() The Whistling Season is the first novel in a trilogy-followed by Work Song (2010) and ending with Sweet Thunder (2012). Doigs 2006 novel The Whistling Season became a New York Times best-seller. ![]() ![]() When the schoolmarm runs off with an itinerant preacher, Morris is pressed into service, setting the stage for the "several kinds of education"-none of them of the textbook variety-Morris and Rose will bring to Oliver, his three sons, and the rambunctious students in the region's one-room schoolhouse.Ī 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. ![]() Answered Questions (2) A friend suggested Doig since we are moving to MT next year (yay). ![]() "Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition" that draws the hungry attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909.Īnd so begins the unforgettable season that deposits the noncooking, nonbiting, ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her font-of-knowledge brother, Morris Morgan, in Marias Coulee along with a stampede of homesteaders drawn by the promise of the Big Ditch-a gargantuan irrigation project intended to make the Montana prairie bloom. The Whistling Season By Ivan Doig On Sale: 17.99 Now: 14.39 Spend 49 on print products and get FREE shipping at HC.com Format: Qty: ADD TO CART about Product Details reviews Cant cook but doesnt bite. The Whistling Season Reader Q&A Questions About The Whistling Season (Morrie Morgan 1, Two Medicine Country 7) by Ivan Doig Reader Q&A To ask other readers questions about The Whistling Season, please sign up. ![]()
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