Synopses & Reviews
English Creek is a portrait of a time and place that at once inspires and fulfills a longing for an explicable past. It is a novel as luminously American as Cather's writing, Wyeth's painting and Copland's music.
Review
"Sheer magic...simply a national treasure." USA Today
Review
"Commonly compared with Paul Horgan and Wallace Stegner...Doig seems something else. A truer comparison might be with Robert Louis Stevenson because of Doig's magical welding of history into fiction, of adventure with everyday life, of legend with lore." The Washington Post
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"Here is the real Montana, the real West, through the eyes of a real writer." Wallace Stegner
Synopsis
This first novel of Doig's three-part saga of life in Montana's Two Medicine country is about the important summer of 1939 in the life of 14-year-old Jick McCaskill.
About the Author
Ivan Doig grew up in a family of Montana ranch hands during the 1940s and '50s. The author of ten books, including the acclaimed novels that make up the Montana Trilogy — English Creek, Dancing at the Rascal Fair, and Ride with Me, Mariah Montana — he lives with his wife in Seattle. Visit the author's website at www.ivandoig.com.