This final novel by Ivan Doig, an iconic author of the American Northwest, has received the star treatment it deserves in David Aaron Baker’s empathetic and imaginative narration…Baker channels Doig’s humor, kindness, and wisdom and treats us to an unforgettable panoply of characters, including cowboys, crooks, hobos, canasta-playing ladies, plus Donny and his sevebtt-something German pal. 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.Ĭharming, wise, and slyly funny, Last Bus to Wisdom is a last sweet gift from a writer whose books have bestowed untold pleasure on countless readers. Last Bus to Wisdom: A Novel (Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read) Author. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Ivan Doigs beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-olds imagination.

But as it turns out, Donal isn’t traveling solo: Herman the German has decided to fly the coop with him. The final novel from a great American storyteller.

After one contretemps too many, Kate packs him back to the authorities in Montana on the next Greyhound bus. She henpecks her goodnatured husband, Herman the German, and Donal can’t seem to get on her good side either.

Aunt Kate–bossy, opinionated, argumentative, and tyrannical-is nothing like her sister. The final novel from a great American storytellerĭonal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Ivan Doig’s beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old’s imagination.īut 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.

Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig