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Ivan Doig grew up with only a vague memory of his mother, Berneta, who died on his sixth birthday. Then he discovered a cache of her letters--and through them, a spunky, passionate, can-do woman as at home in the saddle as behind a sewing machine, and as in love with language as Doig would prove to be. In this moving prequel to his acclaimed memoir This House of Sky, Doig brings to life his childhood before his mother's death and the family's journey from the Montana mountains to the Arizona desert and back again. He eloquently captures the texture of the American West during and after World War II, the fortune of a family, and one woman's indomitable spirit.
- Sales Rank: #1049586 in Books
- Brand: Mariner Books
- Published on: 2006-06-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .44" w x 5.25" l, .50 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 176 pages
- Great product!
From Publishers Weekly
In poetic and precise prose, Doig has crafted a worthy complement to his acclaimed memoir, This House of Sky. While that book concerned family tensions after his mother Berneta's death in 1945, here, prompted by a cache of his mother's letters to her sailor brother from that year, Doig recreates a life "the five-year-old dirtmover that was me" could hardly have known. He describes life in an Arizona housing project for defense workers, where his family moved to spare his mother's asthma. He tracks down his Uncle Wally's old beau, about whom his mother wrote. He recalls the battle between his grandmother and father over his mother's medical condition, "the geography of risk" and the family move back to Montana ranching. Doig's writing is immensely quotable--listening to his elders was "prowling with your ears." What makes this book so touching is that, through letters, Doig realizes how much he, the writer, owes to "this earlier family member who wordworked."
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
Fifteen years after This House of Sky, Doig (Ride with Me, Mariah Montana, 1990, etc.) returns to his earliest days in another profoundly original and lustrous re-creation. Inspired by wartime letters (just recently presented to the author) from his mother to a favorite brother stationed in the Pacific, Doig traces his family's struggles from Montana ranches so isolated that ``weather was the only neighbor'' to the shared hopes of an Arizona defense workers' housing project and back to Montana, with its steady string of natural indignities. Doig's parents eke out a living, always on the verge of better times despite the shadow of his mother's asthma and the prevalence of daily hardships: coyotes near the sheep ranch; infested one-room houses; road mud ``thick enough to float a train.'' His mother's death comes without warning, on the author's sixth birthday, just as the sheep are ready for shearing and a certain healthy profit. ``Nobody got over her,'' Doig writes, ``those around me in my growing-up stayed hit.'' Doig captures the serial disasters, as well as several cherished family scenes--including a lunch of Spam sandwiches and lime Kool-Aid--with the clarifying beauty and sure shaping hand of his first book. Even when mining some of the same material that appeared there, he claims new territory for the significant figures in his life. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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PRAISE FOR HEART EARTH
"Like Doig's This House of Sky, this book repeatedly proves the power of language. Ivan Doig uses words like oil paint to create canvasses of enduring value and originality."--Los Angeles Times
"A lyrical evocation of the Doigs' gallantly hardscrabble existence and love for the unforgiving Montana mountains."--San Francisco Chronicle
Most helpful customer reviews
45 of 47 people found the following review helpful.
Captivating
By B. Nelson
This was my first Ivan Doig book, and after finishing it I immediately picked up This House of Sky. That the story springs forth from his mother's letters seems a fitting start for my experience with Ivan's books, to see how her moments of letter writing have spun themselves out through the words of her son in this book. The easy flow of his writing and the heart and feeling that flows with it (the little boy *kiting* down the prickly peared hill in Arizona) makes it great art--taking form as though it were always meant to be that way--unforced and uncontrived, as natural and beautiful as the Montana and the people he introduces us to. And I appreciate Ivan's own contributions to these review forums. As in this book and the House of Sky book, the love comes through. I have read both twice now (which I seldom do) and intend to keep them as a part of my library (which I also seldom do). I'm so glad I have found this writer and his books. Thank you, Ivan Doig, for sharing with us.
23 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
Days of their lives . . .
By Ronald Scheer
As a sometime writer, I am always humbled by Ivan Doig's rapturous rendering of human experience in the written word. His love of language is a perfect match for the sense of wonder he brings to whatever he's writing about, and he can spin what is often a simple idea into a lengthy interweaving of carefully observed details and nuances of feeling and gentle humor.
He does that here with a handful of letters written by his mother from Arizona and Montana to her brother on board a Navy destroyer in the Pacific during the closing months of WWII. They are also her own last months, dying as she does of heart failure in a high altitude sheep camp where she has been spending a summer with her husband and young son, the author. Doig generates pages of meaning and significance from single sentences in her letters, notably recreating one of her last days, herding sheep on horseback and alone, while husband and son travel to nearby Bozeman.
This is a short book compared to his other fiction and nonfiction, really more like an appendix to his memoir of growing up, "This House of Sky." It captures almost worshipfully the day-to-day reality of people living proudly and with determination on the margins of a rural wartime economy only beginning to recover from the Great Depression. Enjoyable also is Doig's gift for replicating the wry humor in the way they deal with and talk about life's vagaries. Highly recommended to readers of his other books, this is also an excellent introduction to Doig for those who haven't read him yet.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
The better of Doig's two memoirs of growing up in Montana
By R. M. Peterson
HEART EARTH (published 1993) is an autobiographical coda to Ivan Doig's 1978 memoir of growing up in Montana, "This House of Sky". Presumably Doig wrote "This House of Sky" to be an integral, whole work, but years after publishing it he recovered a stash of letters his mother wrote to her brother, at sea in the Pacific, during the last year of WWII. Doig uses those letters as the springboard for fleshing out more of his memoir of his early years and his parents, as well as a few others who were significant presences in and influences on his life. Like "This House of Sky", HEART EARTH is an affectionate tale of decent, hard-working folks, eking out an existence in a grand yet fiercely challenging pocket of this country, and even though a coda of sorts, HEART EARTH can stand alone.
Through one of the serendipities of life, I read HEART EARTH first, years ago in fact. Recently I read "This House of Sky" for the first time, which prompted me to re-read HEART EARTH. Based on that experience, I strongly advise readers who have not yet read either book to read HEART EARTH first. It is the better-written book, and reading it before "This House of Sky" will generate more of an emotional wallop.
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