Work Song

Ivan Doig

eBook - 2010

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 agai...n 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...

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Published
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Main Author
Ivan Doig
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File Size485 MB
ISBN9781101188330
Release Date6/29/2010
Kindle Book
ASINB003NX7OEG
Release Date6/29/2010
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9781101188330
Release Date6/29/2010