Last bus to wisdom
Record details
- ISBN: 1594632022 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781594632020 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1594632022 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781594632020 : HRD
- ISBN: 1594632022
- ISBN: 9781594632020
- ISBN: 9781594632020 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1594632022 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781101982563
- ISBN: 110198256X
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Physical Description:
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453 pages ; 24 cm - Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2015.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Bestselling author of The Bartender's Tale"--Jacket. |
Summary, etc.: | "In the spirit of The Bartender's Tale, a lively and poignant coming-of-age story about a boy and his great-uncle on a cross-country odyssey. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin. There Donal is in for a rude surprise: Aunt Kate-bossy, opinionated, argumentative, and tyrannical--is nothing like her sister. She henpecks her good-natured husband, Herman the German (as Donal discovers him to be), and Donal can't seem to get on her good side either. After one contretemps too many, Kate decides to pack him back to the authorities in Montana on the next Greyhound. But to Donal's surprise, he's not traveling solo: Herman the German has decided to fly the coop with him. In the immortal American tradition, the pair light out for the territory together, meeting a classic Doigian ensemble of characters and having rollicking misadventures along the way. Charming, wise, and slyly funny, Last Bus to Wisdom is another treasure of a novel from the best storyteller of the West"-- |
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Subject: | Boys Fiction Uncles Fiction Travelers Fiction Uncles Fiction Voyages and travels Fiction |
Genre: | Road fiction. Bildungsromans. Bildungsromans. Road fiction. |
Available copies
- 44 of 44 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 44 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Ansonia Public Library | FIC DOIG, IVAN (Text) | 34045117346937 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Babcock Library - Ashford | F Doi (Text) | 33110150615613 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Beardsley & Memorial Library - Winsted | FIC DOIG (Text) | 33750000059228 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | F DOIG I (Text) | 32544072383051 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | F DOIG (Text) | 34030131939032 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | AF DOI (Text) | 33260000204884 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Brookfield Library | F/DOIG (Text) | 34029133695709 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Burnham Library - Bridgewater | FIC DOIG (Text) | 36937002138841 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | FIC DOIG (Text) | 34014132991515 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
David M. Hunt Library - Falls Village | F Doi (Text) | 33180123745243 | Adult Fiction - First Floor | Available | - |
Last Bus to Wisdom : A Novel
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Summary
Last Bus to Wisdom : A Novel
Named a Best Book of the Year by the Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Kirkus Review The final novel from a great American storyteller. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Ivan Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin. There Donal is in for a rude surprise: Aunt Kate-bossy, opinionated, argumentative, and tyrannical--is nothing like her sister. She henpecks her good-natured husband, Herman the German, and Donal can't seem to get on her good side either. After one contretemps too many, Kate packs him back to the authorities in Montana on the next Greyhound. But as it turns out, Donal isn't traveling solo: Herman the German has decided to fly the coop with him. In the immortal American tradition, the pair light out for the territory together, meeting a classic Doigian ensemble of characters and having rollicking misadventures along the way. Charming, wise, and slyly funny, Last Bus to Wisdom is a last sweet gift from a writer whose books have bestowed untold pleasure on countless readers.