{"product_id":"9781101188330","title":"Work Song","description":"An award-winning and beloved novelist of the American West spins the further adventures of a favorite character, in one of his richest historical settings yet. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"If America was a melting pot, Butte would be its boiling point,\" observes Morrie Morgan, the itinerant teacher, walking encyclopedia, and inveterate charmer last seen leaving a one-room schoolhouse in Marias Coulee, the stage he stole in Ivan Doig's 2006 \u003ci\u003eThe Whistling Season\u003c\/i\u003e. A decade later, Morrie is back in Montana, as the beguiling narrator of \u003ci\u003eWork Song\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lured like so many others by \"the richest hill on earth,\" Morrie steps off the train in Butte, copper-mining capital of the world, in its jittery heyday of 1919. But while riches elude Morrie, once again a colorful cast of local characters-and their dramas-seek him out: a look-alike, sound-alike pair of retired Welsh miners; a streak-of-lightning waif so skinny that he is dubbed Russian Famine; a pair of mining company goons; a comely landlady propitiously named Grace; and an eccentric boss at the public library, his whispered nickname a source of inexplicable terror. When Morrie crosses paths with a lively former student, now engaged to a fiery young union leader, he is caught up in the mounting clash between the iron-fisted mining company, radical \"outside agitators,\" and the beleaguered miners. And as tensions above ground and below reach the explosion point, Morrie finds a unique way to give a voice to those who truly need one. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWatch a Video\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47111897546992,"sku":"9781101188330","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101188330_p0.jpg?v=1763685667","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101188330","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}