{"product_id":"the-eleventh-man-paperback","title":"The Eleventh Man - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIvan Doig\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Driven by the memory of a fallen teammate, TSU's 1941 starting lineup went down as legend in Montana football history, charging through the season undefeated. Two years later, the \"Supreme Team\" is caught up in World War II. Ten of them are scattered around the globe in the war's various lonely and dangerous theaters. The eleventh man, Ben Reinking, has been plucked from pilot training by a military propaganda machine hungry for heroes. He is to chronicle the adventures of his teammates, man by man, for publication in small-town newspapers across the country like the one his father edits. Ready for action, he chafes at the assignment, not knowing that it will bring him love from an unexpected quarter and test the law of averages, which holds that all but one of his teammates should come through the conflict unscathed. A deeply American story, \u003ci\u003eThe Eleventh Man\u003c\/i\u003e is Ivan Doig's most powerful novel to date. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDriven by the memory of a fallen teammate, TSU s 1941 starting lineup went down as legend in Montana football history, charging through the season undefeated. Two years later, the \"Supreme Team\" is caught up in World War II. Ten of them are scattered around the globe in the war s lonely and dangerous theaters. The eleventh man, Ben Reinking, has been plucked from pilot training by a military propaganda machine hungry for heroes. He is to chronicle the adventures of his teammates, man by man, for publication in small-town newspapers across the country like the one his father edits. Ready for action, he chafes at the assignment, not knowing that it will bring him love from an unexpected quarter and test the law of averages, which holds that all but one of his teammates should come through the conflict unscathed.A deeply American story, \u003ci\u003eThe Eleventh Man\u003c\/i\u003e is Ivan Doig s most powerful novel to date. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eTHE WHISTLING SEASON\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Evocative . . . Doig offers a gentle appreciation of the secrets beneath the surface of everyday life, set against a Western landscape that is described in concrete detail.\" \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Both elegiac and life-affirming, \u003ci\u003eThe Whistling Season \u003c\/i\u003etakes the chill out of today's literary winds.\" \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A deeply meditated and achieved art.\" \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Whistling Season\u003c\/i\u003e does what Doig does best: evoke the past and create a landscape and characters worth caring about . . . it's lovely storytelling.\" \u003ci\u003eUSA Today \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Courageous . . . charming . . . When a voice as pleasurable as [Doig's] evokes a lost era, somehow it doesn't seem so lost after all.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIvan Doig was born in Montana in 1939 and grew up along the Rocky Mountain Front, the dramatic landscape that has inspired much of his writing. A recipient of a lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western Literature Association, he is the author of eight previous novels, most recently \u003ci\u003eThe Whistling Season, \u003c\/i\u003e and three works of nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eThis House of Sky\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Seattle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 27, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44302789967974,"sku":"9780547247632","price":26.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/MU5GQytLR3h4NjdqVU03NzIzQkdrZz09.webp?v=1767502526","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-eleventh-man-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}