false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172341524m/165433.jpg 165433 4 Celebrated for his stirring, clear-eyed memoirs and novels of Montana--<I>Dancing at the Rascal Fair</I>, <I>This House of Sky</I>, and most recently <I>Bucking the Sun</I>--Ivan Doig vaults over the mountains in his new novel and lands in the midst of Seattle's <I>fin-de-siècle</I> coffee and computer culture. Mitch Rozier is an oversized, Montana-born, divorced, fiftysomething environmental columnist for a once-hip weekly newspaper on the verge of going under. Lexa McCaskill is his scrappy, earthy, no-nonsense "spousal equivalent"--a "compact Stetsoned woman in blue jeans," also from Montana and divorced, who makes a handsome living catering swanky parties for Seattle's software plutocrats. Doig has a fine time satirizing the excesses and absurdities of "Cyberia" before he abruptly shoos his characters back to Montana: Lyle Rozier, Mitch's Stegner-esque father, wants to involve his son in one more ransack-the-land scheme before leukemia kills him. <p> The wary standoff between father and son works on many levels: as a deeply realistic clash between two fierce, disappointed men; as a symbolic confrontation between the Old West and the new--Lyle's frank, freewheeling exploitation of Montana's vastness versus Mitch's helpless reverence for the environment; and as a brief, brilliant history of how people have lived off and with the land in 20th-century Montana. All of these strands come together in a stunning climax played out against the glorious backdrop of the Bob Marshall Wilderness. <p> One of the great novelists of the American West, Doig proves here that he is just as adept at conjuring up the vagaries of our shiny new cities as he is at taking the measure of rough, tough, old Montana. <I>Mountain Time</I> has everything going for it--great characters, breathtaking scenery, heartbreaking family feuds, wicked humor, a page-turning love story, prose so perfectly pitched you'll want to read it out loud. And there's something new for Doig aside from setting--a serene, twinkling levity. This is the work of a master having a hell of a good time. <I>--David Laskin</I> 1979912 1999 Mountain Time : A Novel total:108|5:11|4:32|3:46|2:14|1:5| 108 354 152 19 3 0 false false Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 12:26:06 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 14:47:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 05:27:30 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 05:31:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 30 13:21:53 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 25 19:26:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2011 Tue Nov 04 17:27:10 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 04 17:40:09 -0800 2008
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