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This House of Sky by Ivan Doig

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This House of Sky

Landscapes of a Western Mind

Ivan Doig

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · February 19, 1980

Reading lane: Western U.S. History

A haunting, magnificently written memoir by Ivan Doig about growing up in the American West Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches.

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Why This Clicks

Land and Belonging

A memoir shaped by western Montana, where landscape and family illuminate the past.

Come here for

  • Western Montana seen through intimate memory
  • Family ties, love, and the pull toward independence

Expect

  • A haunting, carefully examined past
  • Landscape and family sharing the same frame

Book Details

Authors
Ivan Doig
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
February 19, 1980
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Western U.S. History · Midwest History
Reading lane
Western U.S. History

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About This Book

A haunting, magnificently written memoir by Ivan Doig about growing up in the American West 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...

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A haunting, magnificently written memoir by Ivan Doig about growing up in the American West 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 at once especially American and universal in its ability to awaken a longing for an explicable past.

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