The central volume in Ivan Doig's acclaimed Montana trilogy, Dancing at the Rascal Fair is an authentic saga of the American experience at the turn of this century and a passionate, portrayal of the immigrants who dared to try new lives in the imposing Rocky Mountains.
Ivan Doig's supple tale of landseekers unfolds into a fateful contest of the heart between Anna Ramsay and Angus McCaskill, walled apart by their obligations as they and their stormy kith and kin vie to tame the brutal, beautiful Two Medicine country.
The central volume in Ivan Doig's acclaimed Montana trilogy, Dancing at the Rascal Fair is an authentic saga of the American experience at the turn of this century and a passionate, portrayal of the immigrants who dared to try new lives in the imposing Rocky Mountains.
Ivan Doig's supple tale of landseekers unfolds into a fateful contest of the heart between Anna Ramsay and Angus McCaskill, walled apart by their obligations as they and their stormy kith and kin vie to tame the brutal, beautiful Two Medicine country.
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.
Henry Kaisor Chicago Sun-Times Doig's prose is so muscular and
sculpted, so simple and purposeful that I can think only of Edward
Hoagland and Wallace Stegner as Doig's equals.
Lee K. Abbott The New York Times Book Review Against this
masterfully evoked backdrop. Mr. Doig addresses his real subject:
love between friends, between the sexes, between the
generations....His is a prose as tight as a new thread and as
special as handmade candy....Dancing at the Rascal Fair races with
real vigor and wit and passion.
Michael Dorris The Seattle Times Magnificent....Dancing at the
Rascal Fair further establishes its author in the front ranks of
contemporary American wrriters.
Pamela Guillard San Francisco Chronicle Dazzling...I find myself
filled With such high praise for this book that instead of relating
paltry bits of it, I want to quote the whole glorious thing....Doig
plunges right in and, while giving us a gorgeous story,
simultaneously peels that tale back to expose, the nubbins of human
despair -- injustice, failure, and that incalculable restlessness
exemplifled by the immigrant.
Montana's rugged Two Medicine country, memorably evoked in the author's nonfiction memoir This House of Sky and the novel English Creek, once again shapes personalities and destinies in his new work. In 1889, two young Scotsmen, Rob Barclay and Angus McCaskill (grandfather of the narrator of English Creek, arrive in Montana, where for 30 years they struggle to find personal happiness and wrest a living from this demanding land. After losing the woman he loves, Angus marries Rob's sister Adair; their difficult relationship creates conflict, and then a bitter breach, between the two men. But if the thorny individualism of Rob and Angus results in lives that are never easy, they are rich in incident and growth, beautifully described in Doig's strong, savory prose. America's frontier history comes vividly to life in this absorbing saga filled with memorable characters. 50,000 first printing; major ad/promo. (September)
Michael Dorris The Seattle Times Magnificent....Dancing at the Rascal Fair further establishes its author in the front ranks of contemporary American wrriters.
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