Vroege Recensenten

“If America was a melting pot, Butte would be its boiling point.” In 1919, Morrie Morris--last seen making a colorful exit from the one-room schoolhouse in Doig’s long-fictionalized Marias Coulee, Montana, in The Whistling Season--steps off the platform in Butte, a town both figuratlively and literally booming, thanks to the "copper collar" the mining behemoth Anaconda has around its neck. But even on "The Richest Hill on Earth" riches elude Morrie once again, while the complications of a town seething with suspicion seem to seek him out. After a stint as a funeral cryer, he finds a perch in the town library, repository of a surprising literary lode and meeting point for a host of colorful local characters, including another memorable Whistling Season character, Morrie’s erstwhile student Rabrab Rellis. Now a teacher herself, and engaged to a fiery young union leader, Rabrab leads Morrie deeper into the miners’ intrigues, just as he is falling more deeply under the spell of his boarding-house landlady, the aptly named Grace. As tensions above and below ground reach the combustion point, Morrie comes to the rescue of the beleaguered miners in an unexpected and once again distinctively Doig-ishly satisfying way.