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...that interrupted public transport and shut down more than 800 plants. In Warsaw, red-and-white Polish flags fluttered defiantly over idle buses and streetcars as drivers joined workers from some 60 local factories and offices in a related half-day stoppage. On the outskirts of Bydgoszcz, 140 miles northwest of the capital, police turned back columns of angry tractor drivers who were seeking to stage a demonstration in the middle of the town. The snowballing protest climaxed on Saturday, when millions of workers observed a nationwide job boycott ordered by Solidarity, the independent union federation. Across Poland last week...
...father, who had drowned there years earlier. Ruth remembers: "My mother left me waiting for her, and established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain." Fingerbone ("a meager and difficult place") and the vast Northwest surrounding it give the growing girl plenty of emptiness to ponder...
...WORKS because Doig manages to compress meaning into the details of the natural surroundings. Rooted in the soil, always sensitive to weather and view, Doig evokes the Northwest with such an intimate touch that we actually re-experience it. His words and thoughts are religiously down to earth. Nothing can be understood without knowing the land, hugging it, runnings one's fingers over it, as he does at the end when he locates a swan and the initials "JGS" which his "winter brother" had carved in the sandstone at Neah Bay. If he reads Swan's dairy about the place...
When he speaks of "patches of fog snagged in the treetops above," or "the uninsistent Northwest rain simply hanging there in the air like molecules made visible," we know exactly what he means. He takes our impressionistic links to the land and turns them into printed words. Here he is capturing the bustling life of a bluejay...
...what has gone before, and with everything around us. Winter Brothers is an astonishing effort to make sense out of a region, both historical and geographical, even as it begins its modern development. One finds here a vibrant, keenly felt consideration of what it means to live in the Northwest--or anywhere, for that matter. Ivan Doig brings the sense of space and time to a wonderful new tingle...