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The Bartender's Tale
- De: Ivan Doig
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 14 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,565
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,410
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,413
The Bartender' s Tale stars Tom Harry and his 12-year-old son, Rusty, who live alone and run a bar in a small Montana town in the early 1960s. Their lives are upended when Proxy, a woman from Tom's past, and her beatnik daughter, Francine, breeze into town. Is Francine, as Proxy claims, the unsuspected legacy of her and Tom’s past? Without a doubt she is an unsettling gust of the future, upending every certainty in Rusty’s life and generating a mist of passion and pretense that seems to obscure everyone’s vision but his own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If you love a good story ...
- De B.J. en 03-08-13
- The Bartender's Tale
- De: Ivan Doig
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
Great historical fiction and a personal Ivan Doig favorite.
Revisado: 11-20-23
If you are an Ivan Doig fan, I doubt this book will disappoint. It braids in a few characters from other Doig novels. And includes history in a poetic and visual manner. His descriptions of characters allow you to visualize them when you close your eyes. And the relationships between the main “cast” seem real. I enjoyed the pace of The Bartender’s Tale, moseying but not at all slow. Several suspenseful moments, lots of wit and plenty of heart.
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Bucking the Sun
- De: Ivan Doig
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 18 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 145
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 125
Acclaimed for his beloved Montana trilogy, National Book Award finalist Ivan Doig crafts masterful portraits of life in rural Big Sky Country. Set in the 1930s, Bucking the Sun follows the Duff clan during the construction of the Fort Peck Dam. Hugh Duff is angry that the dam will flood his farm, yet his sons hasten to get jobs working on the project.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Too profain.
- De B. Lowe en 09-11-15
- Bucking the Sun
- De: Ivan Doig
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
A bit of a different tone than other Doig books but still gritty & intriguing.
Revisado: 09-11-23
I have read or listened to 7 books by Ivan Doig as I both trust his personal knowledge of Montana as well adore his writing style. I listened to this after finishing the Montana Trilogy, so I was a little disappointed to hear the tone taken toward Scotch Heaven and a few of the characters from the series. They were painted in a different light in this book … however, it is probably more realistic to have a multifaceted description of a character. This book has wonderful character development although this is the first of his books that I have not grown very fond of at least one character. This narrative had a bit of a soap opera feel, but more gritty. Focusing on the tangled web of family drama with the framework of important moments in Montana history. I do like that this book was a bit different than the others I have experienced thus far. But I did miss the more descriptive elements of landscape. Not my favorite of his but still a great book.
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