Last bus to wisdom
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Lexile measure:
1160L
Rating:
1160L
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Published:
New York : Riverhead Books, 2015.
Format:
Book
Physical Desc:
453 pages ; 24 cm
Language:
Unknown
ISBN:
9781594632020 : HRD, 1594632022 : HRD, 9781594632020 (HRD), 1594632022 (HRD), 9781594632020 (hardcover)
Lexile measure:
1160
Notes
Description
"In the spirit of The Bartender's Tale, a lively and poignant coming-of-age story about a boy and his great-uncle on a cross-country odyssey. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin. There Donal is in for a rude surprise: Aunt Kate-bossy, opinionated, argumentative, and tyrannical--is nothing like her sister. She henpecks her good-natured husband, Herman the German (as Donal discovers him to be), and Donal can't seem to get on her good side either. After one contretemps too many, Kate decides to pack him back to the authorities in Montana on the next Greyhound. But to Donal's surprise, he's not traveling solo: Herman the German has decided to fly the coop with him. In the immortal American tradition, the pair light out for the territory together, meeting a classic Doigian ensemble of characters and having rollicking misadventures along the way. Charming, wise, and slyly funny, Last Bus to Wisdom is another treasure of a novel from the best storyteller of the West"--,Provided by publisher.
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1160L,Lexile
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APA Citation (style guide)
Doig, I. (2015). Last bus to wisdom. Riverhead Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Doig, Ivan. 2015. Last Bus to Wisdom. Riverhead Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Doig, Ivan, Last Bus to Wisdom. Riverhead Books, 2015.
MLA Citation (style guide)Doig, Ivan. Last Bus to Wisdom. Riverhead Books, 2015.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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