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Sweet ThunderIvan Doig

Sweet Thunder

368 pagesFirst published 20133 editions
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In the winter of 1920, a quirky bequest draws Morrie Morgan back to Butte, Montana, from a year-long honeymoon with his bride, Grace. But the mansion bestowed by a former boss upon the itinerant charmer proves to be less windfall than money pit. And the town itself, with its polyglot army of miners struggling to extricate themselves from the stranglehold of the ruthless Anaconda Copper Mining Company, seems -- like the couple's fast diminishing finances -- on the verge of implosion. These twin dilemmas catapult Morrie into his new career as editorialist for the Thunder, the fledgling union…

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
PaperbackRiverhead Books20143689781594632761
EditionRiverhead Hardcover20133059781594487347
Edition—20134859781410461339
Newspaper editorsFictionLarge type booksFiction, westernsMontana, fiction