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REVIEWS: The Bartender's Tale
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The Washington Post
Kirkus
GoodReads
Book Companion
From a great American storyteller, a one-of-a-kind father
and his precocious son, rocked by a time of change. Tom Harry
has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a venerable bar
called The Medicine Lodge, the chief watering hole and last
refuge of the town of Gros Ventre, in northern Montana. Tom also
has a son named Rusty, an “accident between the sheets” whose
mother deserted them both years ago. The pair make an odd kind
of family, with the bar their true home, but they manage just
fine. Until the summer of 1960, that is, when Rusty turns
twelve. Change arrives with gale force, in the person of Proxy,
a taxi dancer Tom knew back when, and her beatnik daughter,
Francine. As Rusty struggles to decipher the oddities of adult
behavior and the mysteries build toward a reckoning, Ivan Doig
wonderfully captures how the world becomes bigger and the past
becomes more complex in the last moments of childhood.
Characters: 79. Amazon rating: 4 1/2 stars. Genre: Fiction.
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