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From one of the greatest novelists of the American West comes a surprising and riveting story set in Montana and New York during the Harlem Renaissance, drawing together an unlikely set of thwarted performers in one last inspired grasp at life's set of gold rings: love and renown. Susan Duff-the bossy, indomitable schoolgirl with a silver voice from the pages of Doig's most popular work, Dancing at the Rascal Fair-has reached middle age alone, teaching voice lessons to the progeny of Helena's high society. Wesley Williamson-business scion of a cattle-empire family-has fallen from the heights of gubernatorial aspirations, forced out of a public career by political foes who uncovered his love affair with Susan. Years later, Susan is taken off guard when Wes arrives at her door with an unusual request: to train his chauffeur, Monty, in the ways of voice and performance. Prairie Nocturne is the saga of these three people and their interlocked destinies. Monty is distantly known to Susan from their childhoods in the Two Medicine country, yet an enforced stranger because of the racial divide. When she realizes he possesses a singing voice of rare splendor, Susan joins Wes's Pygmalion-like project to launch Monty on a performing career-only to find the full force of the Ku Klux Klan in their way. As Monty and Susan overcome treacherous obstacles, Wes's mysterious motives unsettle everyone, including himself, and the trio's crossed fates form a deeply longitudinal novel that raises everlasting questions of allegiance, the grip of the past, and the costs of career and passion.… (más)
Prairie Nocturne deeply explores Susan, Wes, and Montgomery's thoughts, backgrounds, and evolving motives and love, while always moving close to Two Medicine.
Sure did not see the endings coming around those high Rockies though Ninian's role was predictable.
And yet, what is missing? How Monty could take a chance on ruining The Observance by insisting on including Susan? Once again, he is rescued by Wes. This was majorly disappointing since he was supposed to be making his new Life on his own.
As well, assuming that Europe will welcome his mixed "marriage" felt off = hello Germany...
And what does Montgomery Rathbun look like?!? Dark yes, but as tall or taller than Susan and Wes? Or shorter because he fit in a barrel?
And, with Wes and his extensive thoughts around North Fork, why does he never explain how he is not totally bored in New York Society and - if he cannot convert to get a divorce and so finally honor Susan, what is on his mind?
I loved Whistling Season and I liked Work Song so I was excited to see another by this author. It might have been my mood but this book seemed to spend an awful lot of time going nowhere. I didn't like any of the main characters enough to really care what happened to them. ( )
My first Doig read, and I thought his writing was exquisite. Wonderful use of metaphor, detailed description. My bad for reading this out of sequence, but glad to have enjoyed it on its own. ( )
This book grew on me, but it took a while. I found Doig's writing distracting at first because it seemed like he was trying too hard. I did eventually come to like the mood of the story--quiet, a bit sad--but I didn't find the love that is revealed late in the game very convincing. ( )
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A story wants to be told a certain way, or it is merely the alphabet badly recited. At the right time the ords borrow us, so to speak, and then out can come the unsuspected sides of things with a force like that of music. This is the story of the three of us, which I am more fit to tell now than when I was alive. on the flyleaf of the diary of Susan Duff, discovered among the papers of the WW Cattle & Land Co, Harvard University, in the year 2025.
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To Dave Walter and Marcella Sherfy for doing half the laughing and damn near all the history.
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The last ringleted girl had finished off the ballad on a hopeful note--she would have given her ears for a raising word from Miss Duff--and night and quiet came again to the house on Highland Street.
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Then she lost herself into the playing as Monty's transporting voice and her rippling keys combined into the crescendo, the music reaching out over the footlights into the great dimmed-down hall and its unmoving audience, the medaled and the jeweled, the plainspun and the Sunday-clothed, the war-stricken and the spared, the shadow-like faces and the pale, raptly in place out there in the levels of the night as if each in a seat assigned in some dark-held circle of a heaven or a hell, Wes's own as usual custom-made.
From one of the greatest novelists of the American West comes a surprising and riveting story set in Montana and New York during the Harlem Renaissance, drawing together an unlikely set of thwarted performers in one last inspired grasp at life's set of gold rings: love and renown. Susan Duff-the bossy, indomitable schoolgirl with a silver voice from the pages of Doig's most popular work, Dancing at the Rascal Fair-has reached middle age alone, teaching voice lessons to the progeny of Helena's high society. Wesley Williamson-business scion of a cattle-empire family-has fallen from the heights of gubernatorial aspirations, forced out of a public career by political foes who uncovered his love affair with Susan. Years later, Susan is taken off guard when Wes arrives at her door with an unusual request: to train his chauffeur, Monty, in the ways of voice and performance. Prairie Nocturne is the saga of these three people and their interlocked destinies. Monty is distantly known to Susan from their childhoods in the Two Medicine country, yet an enforced stranger because of the racial divide. When she realizes he possesses a singing voice of rare splendor, Susan joins Wes's Pygmalion-like project to launch Monty on a performing career-only to find the full force of the Ku Klux Klan in their way. As Monty and Susan overcome treacherous obstacles, Wes's mysterious motives unsettle everyone, including himself, and the trio's crossed fates form a deeply longitudinal novel that raises everlasting questions of allegiance, the grip of the past, and the costs of career and passion.
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and evolving motives and love, while always moving close to Two Medicine.
Sure did not see the endings coming around those high Rockies though Ninian's role was predictable.
And yet, what is missing? How Monty could take a chance on ruining The Observance by insisting
on including Susan? Once again, he is rescued by Wes. This was majorly disappointing since
he was supposed to be making his new Life on his own.
As well, assuming that Europe will welcome his mixed "marriage" felt off = hello Germany...
And what does Montgomery Rathbun look like?!?
Dark yes, but as tall or taller than Susan and Wes?
Or shorter because he fit in a barrel?
And, with Wes and his extensive thoughts around North Fork,
why does he never explain how he is not totally bored in New York Society
and - if he cannot convert to get a divorce and so finally honor Susan,
what is on his mind?
Ivan Doig - we need you back for The Sequel! (