This House of Sky, Ivan Doig
This House of Sky, Ivan Doig
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This House of Sky
Landscapes of a Western Mind

Author: Ivan Doig

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte

Unabridged: 11 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/30/2009


Synopsis

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.

About Ivan Doig

Ivan Doig (1939-2015) was a third-generation Montanan and the author of sixteen books, including the classic memoir This House of Sky and most recently Last Bus to Wisdom. He was a National Book Award finalist and received the Wallace Stegner Award, among many other honors. Doig lived in Seattle with his wife, Carol. Visit IvanDoig.com.


Reviews

I do have relatives in some remote places and when I talked to this one about discovering Ivan Doig, she said that he was a great writer, known far beyond his native Montana, and that she had read several of his books and was glad I was finally starting to catch up. This House of Sky is a memoir that......more

Goodreads review by Paul on June 28, 2017

I had a previous introduction to Ivan Doig with his wonderfully well-written book "Last Bus to Wisdom". At the time, it was just what I wanted. From beginning to end the book did not fail to entertain. When I found an earlier book this same author had written, much earlier, namely "This House of Sky......more

Goodreads review by Zade on May 27, 2016

How odd that a book so firmly rooted in the power of language should leave me at a loss for words to explain its profound effect. I think I hesitate to describe it because I know I will not do justice to Mr. Doig's writing or to the lives he so compellingly illumines in these pages. Although this is......more