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This house of sky landscapes of a Western mind

Chronicles Ivan Doig's youth growing up in Montana. At age six, his mother died, leaving his father, Charlie Doig, and maternal grandmother, to raise him. Times were hard; work was difficult; poverty always shadowed them. But drawing on their strong love and gritty determination, they find the strength to withstand these difficult circumstances.

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  • "Chronicles Ivan Doig's youth growing up in Montana. At age six, his mother died, leaving his father, Charlie Doig, and maternal grandmother, to raise him. Times were hard; work was difficult; poverty always shadowed them. But drawing on their strong love and gritty determination, they find the strength to withstand these difficult circumstances."@en
  • "Reminiscences of thirty years of the author's early life spent in rural Montana."@en
  • "Ivan Doig's memoir shares the experiences and culture that shaped his early years and made him fall in love with the West. From his childhood in a family of homesteaders through the death of his mother and his move to Montana to herd sheep, Doig shows his intimate connection with the American West."@en
  • "An immediate and touching story of a youth coming of age in Montana. Beautifully written and deeply felt."
  • "This is a Doig family biography with the harshness and beauty of the Montana landscape as its background. It explores our connection to the land and how it shapes our values. It demonstrates the benefits of connections to ancestors."@en
  • "Masterfully crafted with lyrical and haunting language, Doig's memoir remains an enduring classic, a story to be savored by anyone who has ever loved a parent or been shaped by the land around them. This house of sky is the moving chronicle of Ivan Doig's youth growing up in Montana. At age six, his mother died, leaving his father, rancher and cowboy, Charlie Doig, and maternal grandmother, the stalwart Bessie Ringer, to raise him. Times were hard; work was difficult; poverty always shadowed them. But drawing on their strong love and gritty determination, they find the strength to withstand these difficult circumstances. They are, Doig reflects, relics of an earlier time and a different lifestyle--uncomplaining, unquestioning, accepting the western land with all its hardships and beauty."@en

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  • "This house of sky landscapes of a Western mind"@en
  • "This house of sky landscapes of a Western mind"
  • "This house of sky [landscapes of a Western mind]"@en
  • "This house of sky"
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