The Whistling Season
by Ivan Doig
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Author: Ivan DoigEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2007-05-07
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Harvest Books
Book Reviews of The Whistling Season
Book Review: Great Reading Group Book!
Summary: 5 Stars
Our PAGES (Prose-Adoring Girls' Enlightenment Society) Reading Group read and discussed The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig. We absolutely recommend it to book clubs for a very delightful read and a lively, interesting discussion about life in the early 20th century West, one-room school education, and the details of the book, itself. We rate this book 4.5 stars.
A couple of things that may not have come out in the published discussion questions and elsewhere in these reviews:
Did you notice the possible similarities in the two brothers, Paul and Damon, and in Morrie and Casper?
Also, we all felt rather melancholy at the end of this book about the loss of that way of life and the one-room school education. In searching the internet we found that, at the time of the setting of this book, there were about 250,000 one-room schools in the United States. Today, there are fewer than 400. But, the fact that there are some left helped to lift our spirits. Maybe we'll have a reading group outing and go visit a few!
Summary of The Whistling Season
"Can?t cook but doesn?t bite." So begins the ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper" that draws the attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so also begins the unforgettable season that deposits the noncooking, nonbiting, ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her font-of-knowledge brother, Morris Morgan, in Marias Coulee, Montana. When the schoolmarm runs off with an itinerant preacher, Morris is pressed into service, setting the stage for the "several kinds of education"?none of them of the textbook variety?Morris and Rose will bring to Oliver, his three sons, and the rambunctious students in the region?s one-room schoolhouse.
A paean to a vanished way of life and the eccentric individuals and idiosyncratic institutions that made it fertile, The Whistling Season is Ivan Doig at his evocative best.
A paean to a vanished way of life and the eccentric individuals and idiosyncratic institutions that made it fertile, The Whistling Season is Ivan Doig at his evocative best.
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