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Mountain time

Ivan Doig

1999316 pagesabout 5–7 hours
1999
first published
  • 1999Scribner · 316 pages · ENGISBN 9780684832951
  • 1999Thorndike Press · 486 pages · ENGISBN 9780786222162
  • 2013Scribner · ENGISBN 9781439125250
  • 2000Scribner · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9780684865690

"In his latest novel, Ivan Doig writes of a generation, shaped by the sixties, that has reached its time of reckoning, and of a man who must uncover the secrets of his father's past before he can live and love in the present."--BOOK JACKET. "Mitch Rozier, who has spent half his fifty years writing an environmental column for an alternative west coast paper finds himself back under his father's roof, caught up in the ordeal of obligation - you can't not go home again when someone is sitting there dying. The sisters Lexa and Mariah McCaskill wrestle with a past that has driven them away from domesticity and as far from their roots as they can get. Lexa has long been ready to settle down with Mitch; Mariah, a photographer who uses her camera to shield herself from the world, lands more reluctantly. And the figure from the generation that produced them, Mitch's father Lyle, both beguiles and exasperates as he attempts to rewrite events in his life before he leaves it."--BOOK JACKET.

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