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A review by kiwi_fruit
English Creek by Ivan Doig
3.0
This is an ode to early 20th century way of life in Montana. I enjoyed other novels by the author more than this one but sure I learned a lot about rangering, sheep herding, fire fighting, country fairs and rodeos. 3.5stars.
Fav. quote:
I somehow knew even then, that the fracture of a family is not a thing that happens clean and sharp, so that you at least can calculate that from here on it will begin to be over with. No, it is like one of those worst bone breaks, a shatter. You can mend the place, peg it and splint it and work to strengthen it, and while the surface maybe can be brought to look much as it did before, the deeper vicinity of shatter always remains a spot that has to be favored.
Fav. quote:
I somehow knew even then, that the fracture of a family is not a thing that happens clean and sharp, so that you at least can calculate that from here on it will begin to be over with. No, it is like one of those worst bone breaks, a shatter. You can mend the place, peg it and splint it and work to strengthen it, and while the surface maybe can be brought to look much as it did before, the deeper vicinity of shatter always remains a spot that has to be favored.