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National Book Award Finalist: A "beautifully written, deeply felt" memoir about growing up in the American West (Los Angeles Times).
Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches. What he deciphers from his past with piercing clarity is not only a raw sense of land and how it shapes us, but also of the ties to our mothers and fathers, to those who love us, and our inextricable connection to those who shaped our values in our search for intimacy, independence, love, and family.
A powerfully told story, This House of Sky is uniquely Americanâ??yet also universal in its ability to awaken a longing for an explicable past.
Yes, THIS HOUSE OF SKY immerses readers, with beautiful and lyrical words, into Ivan Doig's early challenging ranch work life and his later evolutions as a writer... and yet, there is never any compassion for the "frenzied bleating...and moaning" of the sheep.
His father, Charlie Doig emerges as the hero, determined to keep his son close to him and strong following the death of his wife, his unfortunate remarriage and eventual unity with his mother-in-law.
Plots slows with tedious McGrathisms and some over-lengthy backstories.
WOW - Full Tuition Scholarship at Northwestern - who wouldn't want that?!
And yet, why didn't they all let their neighbors care for their loyal dog instead of just putting him down...? ( )
A beautifully written memoir of the author's childhood and growing up in a now vanished near-wild landscape, with a particular emphasis on how necessity and hardship, and even tragedy, can draw people together, and bond even enemies into that extraordinary and powerful thing we call a family. His unflinchingly honest portrayals of his father and grandmother, with all their faults and foibles, demonstrate the power of this transformation, and the foundation it creates for navigating through life. ( )
Beautifully written memoir covering his childhood and early adult years. From growing up in rough sheep herding country in Montana, until getting married, starting a career, and then seeing his beloved father and grandmother die.
Ivan Doig, beloved author, died in 2015. He was spared the spectacle of deceit and greed we are forced to view. In "This House of Sky" he presents a Memoir of family life in rural Reservation Montana in the 1940-1950's. The writing is dense, elegant, and surprising. The descriptions--get over your initial horror at the relentless adjectives--of his parents, their work, himself and his grandma are especially inspired. He describes people who know who they are.
Under the apparent stoicism of people in the face of suffering, is a narrative of lives which brought me to quiet surprises of tears. The takeaway is beauty and compassion, relentless decency, without hypocrisy. We the People are going to take back Our Government, and we will not soon forget who we are.
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"for Stan from my house of sky to yours" Signed by the author
To my wife, Carol. Westward we go free.
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Soon before daybreak on my sixth birthday, my mother's breathing wheezed more raggedly than ever, then quieted. And then stopped.
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I glance higher for some hint of the weather, and the square of air broadens and broadens to become the blue expanse over Montana rangeland, so vast and vaulting that it rears, from the foundation-line of the plains horizon, to form the walls and roof of all life’s experience that my younger self could imagine, a single great house of sky.
But not even scouring can get at the deepest crevices of memory, and in them I glimpse Ruth again. I see best the eyes, large and softly brown with what seemed to be some hurt beginning to happen behind them--the deep trapped look of a doe the instant before she breaks for cover. [69]
And the mystery in her could not be missed, the feeling that being around her somehow was like watching the roulette wheel in the Maverick make its slow, fanlike ambush on chance. [70]
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Then my father and my grandmother go, together, back elsewhere in memory, and I am left to think through the fortune of all we experienced together. And of how, now, my single outline meets the time-swept air that knew theirs.
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National Book Award Finalist: A "beautifully written, deeply felt" memoir about growing up in the American West (Los Angeles Times).
Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches. What he deciphers from his past with piercing clarity is not only a raw sense of land and how it shapes us, but also of the ties to our mothers and fathers, to those who love us, and our inextricable connection to those who shaped our values in our search for intimacy, independence, love, and family.
A powerfully told story, This House of Sky is uniquely Americanâ??yet also universal in its ability to awaken a longing for an explicable past.
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into Ivan Doig's early challenging ranch work life and his later evolutions as a writer...
and yet, there is never any compassion for the "frenzied bleating...and moaning" of the sheep.
His father, Charlie Doig emerges as the hero, determined to keep his son close to him and strong
following the death of his wife, his unfortunate remarriage and eventual unity with his mother-in-law.
Plots slows with tedious McGrathisms and some over-lengthy backstories.
WOW - Full Tuition Scholarship at Northwestern - who wouldn't want that?!
And yet, why didn't they all let their neighbors care for their loyal dog instead of just putting him down...? (