Work Song
Price
$9.10
Format
Paperback
Pages
304
Publisher
Riverhead Trade
Publication Date
Reprint edition (July 5, 2011
Dimensions
5.25 x 0.82 x 8.02 inches
Weight
8.8 ounces
Description
About the Author Ivan Doig was born in Montana and grew up along the Rocky Mountain Front, the dramatic landscape that has inspired much of his writing. A former ranch hand, newspaperman, and magazine editor, with a Ph.D. in history, Doig is the author of nine previous novels, most recently The Whistling Season and The Eleventh Man , and three works of nonfiction, including his classic first book, the memoir This House of Sky . He has been a National Book Award finalist and has received the Wallace Stegner Award, a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western Literature Association, and multiple PNBA and MPBA Book Awards, among other honors. He lives in Seattle.
Features & Highlights
- "[A] novel that best expresses the American spirit." -
- Chicago Tribune
- A decade after he left Montana at the end of Ivan Doig's bestselling
- The Whistling Season
- , Morrie Morgan is back-this time in post- WWI Butte, the copper-mining capital of the world. When Morrie gets caught up in the mounting clash between the mining company, outside agitators, and the beleaguered miners, he finds a unique way to give a voice to those who truly need one. Watch a Video
