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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780156031646
The saga of how a widow from Minneapolis and her brother–soon
to become the new teacher in a tiny Montana community in
1909–change lives in unexpected ways has all the charm of
old-school storytelling, from Dickens to Laura Ingalls Wilder.
”Can’t cook but doesn’t bite.” So begins the ad offering the
services of an “A-1 housekeeper” that draws the attention of
widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so also begins the
unforgettable season that deposits the noncooking, nonbiting,
ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her font-of-knowledge brother,
Morris Morgan, in Marias Coulee, Montana. 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. 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.
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