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Book Review of The Bartender's Tale

The Bartender's Tale
The Bartender's Tale
Author: Ivan Doig
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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My favorite author, Ivan Doig, has written a familiar novel to those who know his writing. A boy reunites with his father and begins to accumulate a family of people related and not related to him. Secrets are revealed and the novel is turned on its head in the last few pages as a destructive force defines who is really committed to the family and who is not. Heartwarming and interesting set in rural Montana in the 1960s.