Two Medicine Country: Sweet Thunder (Paperback)

from msbaba

Ivan Doig is celebrated as one of the most accomplished writers of American Western literature. But for me, he has always been far more than that: he is simply a master of literary prose-an accomplished literary author who just happens to set most of his novels in the American West. Doig's latest...

from coho8

Morrie Morgan returns to Butte, Montana, hiding behind a beard and a change (or two) of name. He puts his considerable literary skills to good use as the editorial voice of the new union newspaper, the Thunder, engaging in a verbal fist fight with a rival paper backed by Anaconda Copper. The stor...

from ArieJvdP

Doig is inimitable. If you enjoy a goodhearted story, gentle in tone (even if brass knuckles are critical to the plot), moderate in ambition, and replete with occasional wordplay, then a book by Doig is a treasure. This latest is good, enjoyable, well worth the price of entry, if not his best. En...

from Unkletom

Ivan Doig's latest historical novel serves as a fitting eulogy for a dying industry whose absence will be sorely missed. Early in my career I worked as a budding reporter and my first city editor once said "I haven't told my mother I'm an editor. She still thinks I run numbers on the waterfront"....

from BALE

Montana has served as the backdrop for most of Ivan Doig's novels, Sweet Thunder included. Doig's depiction of the American West, and the colorful characters that have lived and worked there, is both rugged and romantic. He makes heroic figures out of his idealized miners and journalists who are ...