Item #900712 Prairie Nocturne (Signed). Ivan Doig.
Prairie Nocturne (Signed)
Prairie Nocturne (Signed)

Prairie Nocturne (Signed)

New York: Scribner, 2003.
First Edition. Hardcover.

First Edition, First Printing. Signed by the author on first free endpaper.

A 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 African American 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 performance 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 questions of allegiance, the grip of the past, and the costs of career and passion.

Item #900712
ISBN: 0743201353

6-1/4 x 9-1/8", brown spine, mauve paper over boards, 371pp.

Faint scarring to area at upper righthand corner of front panel where sticker has been removed, else fine in dust wrapper and protective mylar.

Price: $40.00