2006, ISBN: 9781101188330

An award-winning and beloved novelist of the American West spins the further adventures of a favorite character in one of his richest historical settings yet. "If America was a mel… More...

An award-winning and beloved novelist of the American West spins the further adventures of a favorite character in one of his richest historical settings yet. "If America was a melting pot Butte would be its boiling point " observes Morrie Morgan the itinerant teacher walking encyclopedia and inveterate charmer last seen leaving a one-room schoolhouse in Marias Coulee the stage he stole in Ivan Doig's 2006 The Whistling Season. A decade later Morrie is back in Montana as the beguiling narrator of Work Song. Lured like so many others by "the richest hill on earth " Morrie steps off the train in Butte copper-mining capital of the world in its jittery heyday of 1919. But while riches elude Morrie once again a colorful cast of local characters-and their dramas-seek him out: a look-alike sound-alike pair of retired Welsh miners; a streak-of-lightning waif so skinny that he is dubbed Russian Famine; a pair of mining company goons; a comely landlady propitiously named Grace; and an eccentric boss at the public library his whispered nickname a source of inexplicable terror. When Morrie crosses paths with a lively former student now engaged to a fiery young union leader he is caught up in the mounting clash between the iron-fisted mining company radical "outside agitators " and the beleaguered miners. And as tensions above ground and below reach the explosion point Morrie finds a unique way to give a voice to those who truly need one. "The most tumultous quirky and fascinating city in the American West of the last century has finally found a storyteller equal to its stories. ... Ivan Doig brings to life the core of humanity and a hell of cast amidst the shadows and sorrows of Butte Montana -- a city that could say it never slept well before New York made a similar claim."-Tim Egan author of The Last Hard Time and The Big BurnAn award-winning and beloved novelist of the American West spins the further adventures of a favorite character in one of his richest historical settings yet. "If America was a melting pot Butte would be its boiling point " observes Morrie Morgan the itinerant teacher walking encyclopedia and inveterate charmer last seen leaving a one-room schoolhouse in Marias Coulee the stage he stole in Ivan Doig's 2006 The Whistling Season. A decade later Morrie is back in Montana as the beguiling narrator of Work Song. Lured like so many others by "the richest hill on earth " Morrie steps off the train in Butte copper-mining capital of the world in its jittery heyday of 1919. But while riches elude Morrie once again a colorful cast of local characters-and their dramas-seek him out: a look-alike sound-alike pair of retired Welsh miners; a streak-of-lightning waif so skinny that he is dubbed Russian Famine; a pair of mining company goons; a comely landlady propitiously named Grace; and an eccentric boss at the public library his whispered nickname a eBook<

ISBN: 9781101188330

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2010, ISBN: 9781101188330

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2010, ISBN: 9781101188330

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