Ivan Doig Knihy

Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches. What he deciphers from his past with piercing clarity is not only a raw sense of land and how it shapes us but also of the ties to our mothers and fathers, to those who love us, and our inextricable connection to those who shaped our values in our search for intimacy, independence, love, and family. A powerfully told story, This House of Sky is at once especially American and universal in its ability to awaken a longing for an explicable past.

The central volume in Ivan Doig's acclaimed Montana trilogy, Dancing at the Rascal Fair is an authentic saga of the American experience at the turn of this century and a passionate, portrayal of the immigrants who dared to try new lives in the imposing Rocky Mountains.Ivan Doig's supple tale of landseekers unfolds into a fateful contest of the heart between Anna Ramsay and Angus McCaskill, walled apart by their obligations as they and their stormy kith and kin vie to tame the brutal, beautiful Two Medicine country.

Set in the fall of 1909, the story follows widower Oliver Milliron, who responds to a unique newspaper ad for a housekeeper. Rose Llewellyn, the cheerful applicant, and her knowledgeable brother, Morris Morgan, arrive in Marias Coulee amidst a wave of homesteaders eager for the Big Ditch irrigation project. The narrative explores themes of hope, community, and the transformative power of ambition as these characters navigate life on the Montana prairie.