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  <title><![CDATA[Heart Earth]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;Ivan Doig grew up with only a vague memory of his mother, Berneta, who died on his sixth birthday. Then he discovered a cache of her letters--and through them, a spunky, passionate, can-do woman as at home in the saddle as behind a sewing machine, and as in love with language as Doig would prove to be. In this moving prequel to his acclaimed memoir &lt;i&gt;This House of Sky&lt;/i&gt;, Doig brings to life his childhood before his mother's death and the family's journey from the Montana mountains to the Arizona desert and back again. He eloquently captures the texture of the American West during and after World War II, the fortune of a family, and one woman's indomitable spirit.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1992</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Doig adds to the autobiography of &quot;This House of Sky&quot; with this short book based on letters from his mother to his uncle. Because his mother died on his sixth birthday in 1945, he grew up knowing very little about her. When his uncle died in 1986, his cousins sent him a small box of letter...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75107333">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read most of Doig's books and enjoyed them.  This one adds nothing to the &quot;based on truth&quot; history.  Fair enough as he labels this one &quot;a memoir.&quot;  That is just what it is and nothings more.  Doig loves to talk about himself and his family but his writing is consistent and...]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[As always, Ivan Doig's words are poetic.  In this memoir, Doig draws the reader into the last year of his mother's life.  She died on his sixth birthday. As an adult he receives letters that she wrote to her brother during this time period.  From those letters come this beautiful book.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very interesting and artistic writing style.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ivan Doig is one of my favorite writers.  Of Scots descent, he writes of the Montana territory settled by his forebears and the country is an overwhelming character in all his novels.  This book is a memoir inspired when he was given letters his mother sent to her brother fighting in the Pacific dur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12993554">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is more than an memoir of a childhood it is an opening into the history of one of my favorite authors.  All of Ivan Doig's books.  Well almost all, are classics and worth reading.  Certainly, this book gives you a sense of his style and how he writes about the west and Montana espescially.  Pic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21094165">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a beautiful western memoir, written almost like a love story of the authors' parents.  The only real problem I had with it was that every now and then the detailed language and description bogged me down.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a prequel to Ivan Doig's THis House of Sky.  After reading Whistling Season by the same author I wanted to read more about his roots in Montana.  So far, it is typical of his writing - an wonderful meander through life.  I'll keep you posted]]></body>
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