Mountain Time

by Ivan Doig

Paper Book, 1999

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Drama. Fiction. HTML: Set in Seattle, San Francisco, Montana, and Alaska, Mountain Time is the Story of three intense relationships: between father and son, between sisters, and between lovers. Mitch Rozier who has spent half of his fifty years writing an environmental column for an alternative west coast paper, now finds himself back under his father's roof; the sisters Lexa and Mariah McCaskill wrestle with the past that has driven them away from domesticity: Lexa has long been ready to settle down with Mitch, a photographer, uses her camera to shield herself from the world; and the figure from the generation that produced them, Mitch's father Lyle, both beguiles and exasperates as he attempts to rewrite events in his life before he leaves it. In his latest novel, Ivan Doig writes of a generation, shaped by the sixties, that has reached is time of reckoning, and of a man who must uncover the secrets of his father's past before he can live and love in the present..… (more)

Original publication date

1999-08-04
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