Reviews
Doig's book is really about our strong history of storytelling, and the variety of ways we spin out words, especially during and about war times...it feels quite right to call Doig's writing a part of Americana., Doig incorporates all the elements of a good novel: an intensifying love interest, the drama of war, repeated moments of life-or-death intensity, the complexity of multple story lines, historical curiosities, seamless prose, and even a winning football team., ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE ELEVENTH MAN " The Eleventh Man is about loyalty and survival and sacrifice--and love--and remains intensely suspenseful and moving throughout."--Scott Turow PRAISE FOR THE WHISTLING SEASON "Doig is in the best sense an old-fashioned novelist: You feel as if you're in the hands of an absolute expert at story-making, a hard-hewn frontier version of Walter Scott or early Dickens."-- O, The Oprah Magazine "Courageous . . . charming . . . When a voice as pleasurable as [Doig's] evokes a lost era, somehow it doesn't seem so lost after all."-- The Washington Post Book World, Though this novel revolves around one resilient American theme (that championship season), it's really about honor, loyalty, and the character and courage that war creates--and reveals., ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE ELEVENTH MAN "The Eleventh Man is about loyalty and survival and sacrifice--and love--and remains intensely suspenseful and moving throughout."--Scott Turow PRAISE FOR THE WHISTLING SEASON "Doig is in the best sense an old-fashioned novelist: You feel as if you're in the hands of an absolute expert at story-making, a hard-hewn frontier version of Walter Scott or early Dickens."--O, The Oprah Magazine "Courageous . . . charming . . . When a voice as pleasurable as [Doig's] evokes a lost era, somehow it doesn't seem so lost after all."--The Washington Post Book World, ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE ELEVENTH MAN " The Eleventh Man is about loyalty and survival and sacrifice--and love--and remains intensely suspenseful and moving throughout."--Scott Turow PRAISE FOR THE WHISTLING SEASON "Doig is in the best sense an old-fashioned novelist: You feel as if you're in the hands of an absolute expert at story-making, a hard-hewn frontier version of Walter Scott or early Dickens."-- O, The Oprah Magazine "Courageous . . . charming . . . When a voice as pleasurable as [Doig's] evokes a lost era, somehow it doesn't seem so lost after all."-- The Washington Post Book World, In nearly thirty years of book writing, Doig has rarely disappointed his readers, The Eleventh Man gives us the twelfth link in that satisfying literary chain., Ivan Doig is a fearless storyteller... The Eleventh Man trembles with the weariness of the modern age toward carnage--a war novel with an anti-war heart., ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE ELEVENTH MAN " The Eleventh Man is about loyalty and survival and sacrifice--and love--and remains intensely suspenseful and moving throughout."--Scott Turow PRAISE FOR THE WHISTLING SEASON "Doig is in the best sense an old-fashioned novelist: You feel as if you're in the hands of an absolute expert at story-making, a hard-hewn frontier version of Walter Scott or early Dickens."-- O, The Oprah Magazine "Courageous . . . charming . . . When a voice as pleasurable as [Doig's] evokes a lost era, somehow it doesn't seem so lost after all."-- The Washington Post Book World, The Eleventh Man is about loyalty and survival and sacrifice--and love--and remains intensely suspenseful and moving throughout., ADVANCE PRAISE FORTHE ELEVENTH MAN "The Eleventh Manis about loyalty and survival and sacrifice--and love--and remains intensely suspenseful and moving throughout."--Scott Turow PRAISE FORTHE WHISTLING SEASON "Doig is in the best sense an old-fashioned novelist: You feel as if you're in the hands of an absolute expert at story-making, a hard-hewn frontier version of Walter Scott or early Dickens."--O, The Oprah Magazine "Courageous . . . charming . . . When a voice as pleasurable as [Doig's] evokes a lost era, somehow it doesn't seem so lost after all."--The Washington Post Book World, The Eleventh Man might well be the very best thing Doig-- an acclaimed and respected author-- has done to date. I loved every word., Vividly evokes a prior time and way of being. It takes a serious view of war and the practitioners of war, and looks hard at the meaning of heroism.
