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The Eleventh Man
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Author
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Ivan Doig.
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Publisher
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Mariner
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Format
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paperback
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Product Dimensions
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8
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1.1
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ISBN
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9780547247632
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Pages/Publication Date
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406/2008
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Daedalus Item Code
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12228
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Description
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Driven by the memory of a fallen teammate, Treasure State University's 1941 starting lineup became legend in Montana football history, charging through the season undefeated. Two years later, these 11 young men are all caught up in World War II, scattered around the globe in various theaters. But the eleventh man, Ben Reinking, has been taken out of pilot training by a military propaganda branch to chronicle the individual adventures of his former teammates for publication in small-town newspapers. He chafes at the assignment, not knowing that it will bring him an unexpected love, while also leaving him to eulogize more of his friends than anyone might have expected. Montana-born Ivan Doig—a favorite author at Daedalus—has been a ranch hand, newspaperman, and magazine editor, as well as the author of This House of Sky, a nonfiction finalist for the National Book Award, and a number of rich, almost mythic novels about the history of Montana. "Doig's prose is so muscular and sculpted, so simple and purposeful," said Henry Kaisor in the Chicago Sun-Times, "that I can think only of Edward Hoagland and Wallace Stegner as Doig's equals." "In the solid latest from veteran novelist Doig ... the fetching Women's Airforce Service Pilot who flies [Ben] around, Cass Standish, is married to a soldier fighting in the South Pacific, which leads to anguish for them both. Meanwhile, Ben's former teammates are being killed one by one, often, it seems, being deliberately put into harm's way. Doig adroitly keeps Ben on track, offering an old-fashioned greatest generation story, well told."—Publishers Weekly
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