false <![CDATA[The Whistling Season]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173234810m/262545.jpg 262545 6 <div>Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition" that draws the hungry attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so begins the unforgettable season that deposits the noncooking, nonbiting, ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her font-of-knowledge brother, Morris Morgan, in Marias Coulee along with a stampede of homesteaders drawn by the promise of the Big Ditch-a gargantuan irrigation project intended to make the Montana prairie bloom. When the schoolmarm runs off with an itinerant preacher, Morris is pressed into service, setting the stage for the "several kinds of education"-none of them of the textbook variety-Morris and Rose will bring to Oliver, his three sons, and the rambunctious students in the region's one-room schoolhouse. <br><br>A paean to a vanished way of life and the eccentric individuals and idiosyncratic institutions that made it fertile, The Whistling Season is Ivan Doig at his evocative best.<br></div> 254488 1 6 2006 The Whistling Season total:1584|5:417|4:722|3:350|2:77|1:18| 1584 6195 2386 564 5 5 false false Mon Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 18:06:42 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 13:23:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 2 false false Wed Feb 27 19:51:32 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 13 19:51:35 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 18 21:13:56 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 13:32:13 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 09:33:52 -0700 2008
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Cons: Plot is a little dull compared to some other recent books I've read. I mean, it takes place out in Nowhere, Montana- so there's not a lot going on.

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