BUCKING THE SUN : A Novel

BUCKING THE SUN : A Novel
by Ivan Doig

BUCKING THE SUN : A Novel
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Author: Ivan Doig
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-05-13
ISBN: 068483149X
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Scribner

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Book Review: Building a dam
Summary: 5 Stars

The characters in this novel are well described and true to the character of Montanans. Doig makes my heart ache for the people of a state I learned to love.

Summary of BUCKING THE SUN : A Novel

Bucking the Sun is the story of the Duff family, homesteaders driven from the Montana bottomland to work on one of the New Deal's most audacious projects -- the damming of the Missouri River. Through the story of each family member -- a wrathful father, a mettlesome mother, and three very different sons and the memorable women they marry, Doig conveys a sense of time and place that is at once epic in scope and rich in detail.
As in This House of Sky and Ride With Me, Mariah Montana, Doig returns to Big Sky country to tell a complex murder mystery peppered with the free-spirit history of the west and the intrigue of Doig's Scottish ancestry. Through Franklin Roosevelt's W.P.A. and P.W.A., the Duff family becomes involved in the construction of the Fort Peck Dam, the largest earth-fill dam in the world. While most are happy for the work, there are others in the Duff clan that hope for the dam's failure. Mixing fact and fiction, Doig explores the hardships of labor, of Fort Peck's shantytown housing, and the Duffs' resilience to everything from Montana blizzards to rattlesnakes. When two in the clan are murdered, Scottish family loyalty is questioned and the remaining family members face their toughest challenge.

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