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    <body><![CDATA[ I earlier read the novel Montana 1948 by Larry Watson. This novel was very appealing and a good page-turner. Larry Watson has also written the novels White Crosses, Orchard, and Justice. Montana 1948 was a bildungsroman about a 12 year old boy David Hayden whose family slowly becomes torn apart. Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32330762">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this, but didn't love it.  <em>Montana, 1948</em> is well-written, simple and direct.  It seems more like a short story than a novel.  If you're a fast reader, it'll be over before you know it.  My favorite parts were the visual descriptions of a small Montana town sixty years ago.  I've driven throu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15893906">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a re-read of another title that I would call a perfect little book. Over the years I have recommended Montana, 1948 so many times to readers that I felt the need to go back and give it another read, just to make sure I still knew what I was talking about. I do. The novella is that perfect e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13849015">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think the whole &quot;coming of age&quot; novel has been done to death, and so often is done badly. This slim book (more of a novella than a novel) is the exception to my rule. The story of a boy who discovers that his family is not exactly what he thought they were rings so true to me. The 'voice...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9527721">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A moving novel about family relationships, family loyalty and justice.  The story reveals the events that lead a young boy to face new realities about the people he loves.  Set in a small town it places brother against brother and son against father, as a sheriff must investigate the rape and murder...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5330760">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Larry Watson’s book Montana 1948 is an intriguing book that narrates the basic fundamental idea that telling the truth is crucial. The writer provides a stressful and intense experience in his book; he tries to portray that lying brings trouble in all aspects of someone’s life.  This is a great ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74237642">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a short book with a 12-year old narrator. But for the subject matter, I would have assumed this was a young adult fiction novel given the ease of the language and narrative. David is the son of the town sheriff and the nephew of the town doctor. They live in Montana in 1948 near an Indian re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59052043">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read this book before, and was once again struck by the chilling realization much of our history is not contained in the approved texts but held behind closed doors and spoken of only in whispers.  It's difficult to learn from the past when the truth is shrouded by a comforting lie.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Part coming-of-age, part crime novel - like a film noir set in mid-century Montana narrated in the style of The Wonder Years. Some of the scenes, especially once the action picks up, are incredibly vivid, and Watson has a way with describing the entire aura of a room: &quot;In the room's dimness, Da...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79529031">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite books from the 1990s.  Understated and a bit more compassionate than McCarthy's works, Montana 1948 evokes similar lonesome western tones with a warmth of solitude.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Narrator David Hadley tells the story of what happened in the summer of 1948, when he was 12, in his small-town home in Montana. His father must choose between family and justice when some shocking accusations surface after their housekeeper, a Native American woman, falls ill; after everything play...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57148622">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another book from my Adolescent Literature class.  Short, beautiful, poignant, and painful.  Definitely not your average coming of age story.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Melancholy and slow -- two of the many words that could describe this novel. But also breathtakingly beautiful. Taking place in Montana, the land and scenery are described but in a natural way - as if you are seeing it yourself, and for the first time. And not coincidentally, the land and the lives ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57355832">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Narrated by a 12 year old boy coming of age, this story about morality, justice and family ties is excellent.  The way he describes life in a small town and the expectations from people depending on your family history really touched me.  David (the narrator) describes knowing from a young age that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63209933">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book swept me away and held me in its current until the end and beyond (it's still rippling through my mind).  It tells one of the private stories of a small, Montana town as discovered through the eavesdropping ears of a boy whose family is caught up in a terrible situation that turns brother ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68983969">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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