by vjbooks | Feb 1, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(Hot Springs Village Voice, Nov. 26, 2008, Brenda Thomas) Ivan Doig, a western writer (not a writer of westerns) joined an elite group of authors (Wallace Stegner, Rick Bass, Annie Proulx, etc.) who craft novels in this genre with his debut novel This House of Sky...
by vjbooks | Jan 12, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Nov. 30, Bob Minzesheimer) Ivan Doig, who blends the skills of novelist and historian, was researching another book when he lucked onto a forgotten but stunning scrap of history: In World War II, the 11 starters on the football team at...
by vjbooks | Dec 25, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(boston.com, Dec. 19, 2008, David Liss) As he does with his many preceding novels, Ivan Doig roots “The Eleventh Man” in rural Montana of the past, but this book, set during the years of American involvement in World War II, is much more wide-ranging than...
by vjbooks | Nov 22, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(grandforkshearld.com, Nov. 16, Mary Ann Gwinn) ‘The Eleventh Man’: The fates of legendary football teammates play out in WWII Ivan Doig is a fearless storyteller. The Seattle author, an icon among writers of the American west, has set his novels and...