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e_phemerart66) Doig, Ivan. THE BARTENDER'S TALE. Riverhead: 2012.
“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.“ (Newsweek) "Doig expertly spins out 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 Review)
Doig is my favorite Western author (Western as in regional fiction--not just cowboy stories). This one, quite fondly, made me think of a Montana version of "Dandelion Wine"; both Bradbury's and Doig's novels are wonderfully nostalgic and lyrical.
“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.“ (Newsweek) "Doig expertly spins out 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 Review)
Doig is my favorite Western author (Western as in regional fiction--not just cowboy stories). This one, quite fondly, made me think of a Montana version of "Dandelion Wine"; both Bradbury's and Doig's novels are wonderfully nostalgic and lyrical.
