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PRAISE FOR"THE BARTENDER'S TALE " "Highly textured and evocative ...Doig gives us a poignant saga of a boy becoming a man alongside a town and a bygone way of life inching into the modern era. " - "Publishers Weekly "(Starred Review) "[An] enjoyable, old-fashioned, warmhearted story about fathers and sons, growing up, and big life changes." - Library Journal""PRAISE FOR "WORK SONG " "As enjoyable and subtly thought-provoking a piece of fiction as you're likely to pick up this summer. It's a book that can be appreciated just for the quality of the prose and the author's adherence to the sturdy conventions of old-fashioned narrative or for Doig's sly gloss on Western genre fiction and unforced evocation of our current condition -- or, better yet, for all those things...A pleasure to read." - "The Los Angeles Times" "Not one stitch unravels in this intricately threaded narrative ... infectious." -"The New York Times Book Review " "If you were looking for a novel that best expresses the American spirit, you'd have to ride past a lot of fence posts before finding anything as worthy as "Work Song."" --"Chicago"" Tribune " "Doig has delivered another compelling tale about America, epic as an Old West saga but as fresh and contemporary as the news." - "Seattle"" Times" "Richly imagined and beautifully paced." --"Associated Press ("also ran in" San Francisco Chronicle "and elsewhere) "A classic tale from the heyday of American capitalism by the king of the Western novel." ---"The Daily Beast""(Hot Reads) " PRAISE FOR "THE WHISTLING SEASON" "Along with his much praised, incantatory gifts for evoking quintessentially American prairie life and history, the National Book Award finalist brings ... a bushel and peck of irresistible characters, each so full of spunk, wit, ambition or sheer orneriness that not one of them will lie down on the page and sleep for a mom"Highly textured and evocative ...Doig gives us a poignant saga of a boy becoming a man alongside a town and a bygone way of life inching into the modern era. " - "Publishers Weekly "(Starred Review) "Doig expertly spins out [the] various narrative threads with his usual gift for bringing history alive in the odysseys of marvelously thorny characters...Possibly the best novel yet by one of America's premier storytellers." -"Kirkus "(Starred Review) "[An] enjoyable, old-fashioned, warmhearted story about fathers and sons, growing up, and big life changes." - "Library Journal" "Essential reading for anyone who cares about western literature." - "Booklist "(Starred Review) PRAISE FOR" WORK SONG " "As enjoyable and subtly thought-provoking a piece of fiction as you're likely to pick up this summer. It's a book that can be appreciated just for the quality of the prose and the author's adherence to the sturdy conventions of old-fashioned narrative or for Doig's sly gloss on Western genre fiction and unforced evocation of our current condition -- or, better yet, for all those things...A pleasure to read." - "The Los Angeles Times" "Not one stitch unravels in this intricately threaded narrative ... infectious." -"The New York Times Book Review " "If you were looking for a novel that best expresses the American spirit, you'd have to ride past a lot of fence posts before finding anything as worthy as Work Song." --"Chicago Tribune" "Doig has delivered another compelling tale about America, epic as an Old West saga but as fresh and contemporary as the news." - "Seattle Times" "Richly imagined and beautifully paced." --"Associated Press "(also ran in San Francisco Chronicle and elsewhere) "A classic tale from the heyday of American capitalism by the king of the Western novel." ---The Daily Beast (Hot Reads) PRAISE FOR THE WHISTLING SEASON "Doig cranks into motion a dense valentine of a novel about a father and a small town at the start of the 1960s...Doig writes the tenderness between Rusty and his father vividly, and his facility with natural, vernacular dialogue is often hypnotizing...."The Bartender's Tale "is thoroughly engaging, and the book's soft focus of nostalgia is in itself a kind of pleasure." - "NPR" "With this expert novel, [Doig] sets himself a larger canvas and fills it with a diverse cast... Fact and fiction are skillfully fused to document a boy's last days of youth and a history his father can't leave behind...Rusty's youthful adventures are enchanting, but Doig does something more--he punctuates them with the colorful local idiom of his father's grizzled punters." - "Newsweek/Daily Beast" "Highly textured and evocative ...Doig gives us a poignant saga of a boy becoming a man alongside a town and a bygone way of life inching into the modern era. " - "Publishers Weekly "(Starred Review) "Doig expertly spins out [the] various narrative threads with his usual gift for bringing history alive in the odysseys of marvelously thorny characters...Possibly the best novel yet by one of America's premier storytellers." -"Kirkus "(Starred Review) "[An] enjoyable, old-fashioned, warmhearted story about fathers and sons, growing up, and big life changes." - "Library Journal" "Essential reading for anyone who cares about western literature." - "Booklist "(Starred Review) PRAISE FOR" WORK SONG " "As enjoyable and subtly thought-provoking a piece of fiction as you're likely to pick up this summer. It's a book that can be appreciated just for the quality of the prose and the author's adherence to the sturdy conventions of old-fashioned narrative or for Doig's sly gloss on Western genre fiction and unforced evocation of our current condition -- or, better yet, for all those things...A pleasure to read." - "The Los Angeles Times" "The perfect book for your bedside table. Pick it up, lose yourself in the past and remember what it was like to be twelve years old, when your world and all the people who entered into it felt as fresh as the Montana mountain air." -"Associated Press" "[The] rewards of "The Bartender's Tale"--a subtle and engaging narrative, characters who behave the way real people behave, the joys of careful and loving observation--remain very great and extremely rare." -"The Washington Post" "Doig cranks into motion a dense valentine of a novel about a father and a small town at the start of the 1960s... Doig writes the tenderness between Rusty and his father vividly, and his facility with natural, vernacular dialogue is often hypnotizing... "The Bartender's Tale" is thoroughly engaging, and the book's soft focus of nostalgia is in itself a kind of pleasure." -NPR "Doig is at his best with coming-of-age stories. And he is masterful at exploring the emotional complexities of family and community through the eyes of a precocious youth... [He] has fashioned a moving tale of tolerance, self-discovery and forgiveness in which a child comes to terms with his own origins and in the process opens a new door to his future." -"The Seattle Times" "With this expert novel, [Doig] sets himself a larger canvas and fills it with a diverse cast... Fact and fiction are skillfully fused to document a boy's last days of youth and a history his father can't leave behind... Rusty's youthful adventures are enchanting, but Doig does something more--he punctuates them with the colorful local idiom of his father's grizzled punters." -"Newsweek/Daily Beast ""Essential reading for anyone who cares about western literature." -"Booklist "(starred review) "Doig expertly spins out [the] various narrative threads with his usual gift for bringing history alive in the odysseys of marvelously thorny characters... Possibly the best novel yet by one of America's premier storytellers." -"Kirkus "(starred review) "Highly textured and evocative... Doig gives us a poignant saga of a boy becoming a man alongside a town and a bygone way of life inching into the modern era. " -"Publishers Weekly "(starred review) "[An] enjoyable, old-fashioned, warmhearted story about fathers and sons, growing up, and big life changes." -"Library Journal"
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About the Author
Ivan Doig is the author of ten previous novels, most recently Work Song, and three works of nonfiction, including his classic first book, This House of Sky. He lives in Seattle.
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Product details
Series: Two Medicine Country
Paperback: 414 pages
Publisher: Riverhead Books; Reprint edition (August 6, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1594631484
ISBN-13: 978-1594631481
Product Dimensions:
5.1 x 0.9 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.5 out of 5 stars
521 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#196,006 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
After reading “The Last Bus to Wisdom†I pretty much fell in love with Ivan Doig. “The Bartenders Tale†pretty much cements his place in my life as Favorite Author.The story is told by a loveable worry-wort of a 12 year old kid who’s being raised by his single dad, the bartender in a saloon in Gros Ventre Montana.A swarm of characters come into and out of their lives, each of them beautifully drawn and multi-faceted. I laughed, I cried, I stayed up all night reading. It’s the best. I can’t wait to start my next Ivan book.
This book was published before Ivan Doig passed away this year on April 9th. The years in which the story takes place is the mid-to-late 1950s and the setting is a familiar one, the fictitious town of Gros Ventre featured in many of Doig’s earlier novels. From my own reckoning, the territory around Gros Ventre is like that of Chouteau, Montana, situated north of Helena and east of the Flathead National Forest, sheepherder country among other uses. The title bartender is Tom Harry who decides to reclaim his son, Rusty, living with an aunt in Phoenix. It’s quite a culture change for Rusty and he seems to live in stages of fear and wonderment; fear of being abandoned by his dad and wondering what prompts adults to act the way they do. He finds an ally in a girl named Zoe, also twelve years old. Their favorite pastime is hiding out in the back room of Tom’s bar called Medicine Lodge and eavesdropping through a vent in the wall. The conversations between these two reveal them wise beyond their years and their schtick as would-be actors is often hilarious. Tom’s and Rusty’s lives are changed when a young man named Del Robertson comes into town. He’s being funded by a grant from the Library of Congress to gather data on the words and dialects spoken by local characters, the "lingua america" as he calls it. The lives of Tom, Rusty, Del and Zoe are upended even more when a woman called Proxy, a nickname related to her hair color, zooms into town driving a red Cadillac with her sulking twenty-one year old daughter named Francine. Turns out Proxy and Tom Harry have a history at another Montana saloon called the Blue Eagle. Doig was a writer who practiced his storytelling craft with elegant simplicity. In this book he gives us a subtle and engaging narrative about his characters who act like real people. Though they have some rough edges and don’t always behave the way you would like them to, you still come to care a lot about them. Overall it’s a story about a part of our country you don’t read much about and the solid folks who live and work there.
When you are a bartender in a small fictional Montana town there are lots of stories to be heard. Tom Harry, who is lauded to be the best bartender in Montana, decides to be the dad and retrieve his 6 year old son from his sister who has raised him. The kid, Rusty, has a lot of questions he needs answered. Answers are a long time coming.Owning a joint comes with its set of interesting and mysterious characters . That's what hanging around a bar is all about. Tom does his best to keep his son in the dark about his dubious other dealings. But a kid hears things and learns them through the vent that carries the sounds in the bar to the back room where he spends most of his time.What Rusty tries to figure out is why his father has a sudden interest in him and then constantly takes on an almost parental role and several others worrying about his father's past and his association with women. In his twelfth year Rusty meets Zoe who is his constant companion and sounding board. As the father and son grow closer Rusty learns much about his secretive father and his missing maternal figure. I gave it four stars because it got a little long. The reader invests in these characters, I want to know the outcome, but Doig takes his own sweet time telling the story in the narrative of Rusty.
So, I found this novel a bit long and slow. I'm all for coming-of-age novels, and this one had some delightful moments--including the narrator. I enjoyed his POV quite a bit. But at times it felt like the story was just going on and on and on and not really going anywhere. I did enjoy the setting, the small town, and the quirky folks who lived there.
This isn't Ivan Doig's best book. It's not English Creek or Dancing at the Rascal Fair or The Whistling Season. But it's still a great yarn with characters to care about.Rusty, the narrator, is the twelve-year-old son of bartender (and single parent) Tom Harry. Tom owns the best bar in Gros Ventre, Montana. And that's all you really need to know to be assured you're in for a great story. It's a place and a people Doig has taught us to care about. Other characters, introduced in other books, have supporting roles, and Roman Reef and the Two Medicine country hovers over everything.There are some weaknesses. The kids (Rusty and his new friend Zoe) are smart and appealing, but Doig gives away a bit too much about where their relationship will lead too early in the story, and there isn't any of the hormonal tension that's always there with kids on the cusp of puberty. The arrival of other characters that are central to the plot take too long to arrive on the scene. One very dramatic scene near the end doesn't play out as scarily as it should. Still, the ending is satisfying. Tom Harry is the genuine article. If you love the modern-day American West and its people, you can't go wrong reading anything by Ivan Doig.
My father liked to drink. He took me to a local bar & bought me soda while he drank beer & talked with the bartender & friends. It wasn’t the best thing for a young boy, but I got to be with my dad. The author shows us the relationship between a father a son as it begins and develops. Introduction and development of other characters is handled is a marvelous ways. The time setting was just right for a man soon to turn 70, as I am. Read this book & experience the end of the innocence of the country & the beginning of the ‘60s. No matter your age I believe you will enjoy!NickTheMoose
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