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Reading Circle
@
Newport Public Library
Tuesday, September 13
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Reading this Month: Dancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig .
The Newport Public Library's Reading circle meets on the 2nd Tuesday of each month from noon to 1:30 p.m. Come join us in the McEntee Meeting Room -- and bring a lunch.
More about Ivan Doig:
1. Ivan Doig, a prolific novelist and National Book Award finalist in contemporary thought, writes about his little bit of earth under the Big Sky—the Rocky Mountain Front in Montana.
Doig is often pegged as a regional writer by the East Coast literary establishment. Yet this former ranch hand with a Ph.D. in history has claimed thirteen literary awards and holds honorary degrees from Montana State University and Lewis and Clark College. ... (From California State University - Chico publication, Montana’s Ivan Doig: The Writer’s Heart )
2. Writer Ivan Doig realized in the late 1960s that he was a relic. Grown up in the shape of the Rocky Mountain Front and the Big Belt Mountains in the 1940s and '50s, the things he knew about were out of step with the rest of the self-questioning, war-protesting country. Doig knew about lambing, herding sheep, trailing sheep, cussing sheep, picking rock from grain fields, driving a power buck rake in haying time and a D-8 Cat pulling a harrow during summer fallowing, digging a well by hand and whitewashing a barn. (by GINNY MERRIAM of the Missoulian -- found in The 100 Most Influencial Montanans of the Century )
3. Grounded in the specific land and lingo of the American West, Doig eloquently captures many of life’s most universal themes in his fiction and nonfiction: the relationship between past and present, environ-mental protection versus exploitation, and the contributions of individuals within a larger, historical context. (from St. Charles Public Library, IL )
More about the book:
1. There are some folks who write clean and crisp prose with a snap to it like sheets fresh from the sunshine. And there are some who write melodies that flow from the page into the mind, dancing rhyme and rhythm into a story that lasts and lasts. But the really good writers can do both. Ivan Doig is one of those. ... (from The View from the Foothills )
2. There are some folks who write clean and crisp prose with a snap to it like sheets fresh from the sunshine. And there are some who write melodies that flow from the page into the mind, dancing rhyme and rhythm into a story that lasts and lasts. But the really good writers can do both. Ivan Doig is one of those. (by Deb English in ex libris reviews, July 1, 2004)
posted Monday, 12 September 2005
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