Mountain Time: A Novel

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Generational saga set against majestic American West.

"Mountain Time" invites you into the soulful world of unresolved family dynamics and the quest for personal peace. It's the kind of book that paints vast, natural landscapes not just as a setting, but as an integral character influencing the lives within. Ivan Doig's talent for intertwining the grandeur of the American West with the intimate struggles of love and family creates a narrative that's both grounding and sweeping. If you're drawn to stories where the environment echoes the emotional turmoils of its characters, this novel will resonate with you deeply.

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Mountain Time: A Novel

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ISBN: 9780684832951
Authors: Ivan Doig
Publisher: Scribner
Date of Publication: 1999-08-04
Format: Hardcover
Goodreads rating: 3.5
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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. One of the greatest writers of the American West, Doig exquisitely renders the natural beauty of its landscapes as he contrasts human time with the immense clock of the earth, measuring the briefer existences that are our human fate against the patient witness of the mountains. Set in Seattle, San Francisco, Montana, and Alaska, "Mountain Time" is the story of three intense relationships: between father and son, between sisters, and between lovers. At once complex and subtle, these oldest quandaries of kinship and love are all dramatically in need of resolution. 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. 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 beg
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Generational saga set against majestic American West.

"Mountain Time" invites you into the soulful world of unresolved family dynamics and the quest for personal peace. It's the kind of book that paints vast, natural landscapes not just as a setting, but as an integral character influencing the lives within. Ivan Doig's talent for intertwining the grandeur of the American West with the intimate struggles of love and family creates a narrative that's both grounding and sweeping. If you're drawn to stories where the environment echoes the emotional turmoils of its characters, this novel will resonate with you deeply.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.