Work Song - Hardcover

A sequel to The Whistling Season finds itinerant schoolteacher Morrie journeying to 1919 Butte in the hopes of making his fortune in copper mining but instead finding a rich assortment of local characters before an encounter with a former student leads to a violent union uprising. By the National Book Award-finalist author of This House of Sky.

Ivan Doig was born in Montana and grew up along the Rocky Mountain Front, the dramatic landscape that has inspired much of his writing. A former ranch hand, newspaperman, and magazine editor, with a Ph.D. in history, Doig is the author of nine previous novels, most recently The Whistling Season and The Eleventh Man, and three works of nonfiction, including his classic first book, the memoirThis House of Sky. He has been a National Book Award finalist and has received the Wallace Stegner Award, a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western Literature Association, and multiple PNBA and MPBA Book Awards, among other honors. He lives in Seattle.