Mountain Time (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ivan Doig
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The late 1990’s
- Setting: Seattle and north central Montana
- Principal Characters: Mitch Rozier, Lyle Rozier, Lexa McCaskill, Mariah McCaskill, Jerome (Bing) Bingford III
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Traveling or travelers, Fathers, Adultery, Death or dying, Forests or forestry, Photography or photographers, Funeral rites or ceremonies, Newspapers, Pacific Northwest, 1990’s, Environment or environmental health, Leukemia, Alaska, Arctic
- Locales: Seattle, WA, Montana
This novel, Ivan Doig’s sixth, continues the stories of the lives of some of the characters who populated an earlier novel, Ride with Me, Mariah Montana (1990), especially Mariah McCaskill and her younger sister, Lexa. The central character, however, is Mitch Rozier, a native of Montana transplanted to Seattle, who earns his living as a columnist for a weekly environmentalist newspaper published by a rich young friend of his. The central action takes place when Mitch is called to his small home town in Montana, ostensibly to hear the details of his father’s latest deal and to...
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