Bucking the Sun (Thorndike Press Large Print Americana Series) - Hardcover

Doig, Ivan

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9780786208142: Bucking the Sun (Thorndike Press Large Print Americana Series)

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ISBN 10: 0786208147 ISBN 13: 9780786208142

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 1997

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Driven from the Montana bottomland to relief work on a New Deal dam project on the Missouri, the Duff family--three brothers, their parents, wives, and others--works on the Fort Peck Dam, but the unforgiving river and tragedy are always threatening

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Review:

"Entertainment Weekly

Bucking the Sun..".derives its narrative energy from as tangled a web of familial and psychosexual rivalries as one is apt to encounter this side of "Hamlet" or "The Brothers Karamazov."

"Chicago Sun-Times"

Doig now has to be considered the premier writer of the American West.

E. Annie Proulx

author of "Accordion Crimes" and "The Shipping News"

Ivan Doig is one of the best we've got -- a muscular and exceedingly good writer who understands our hunger for stories.

David Laskin

"The Washington Post"

"Bucking the Sun" is one of the books that takes you over as you read it, invading your daydreams, lodging its cadences in your brain, summoning you back to the page.

"Entertainment Weekly

Bucking the Sun,.".derives its narrative energy from as tangled a web of familial and psychosexual rivalries as one is apt to encounter this side of "Hamlet" or "The Brothers Karamazov."

John Harvey

"San Francisco Chronicle"

Doig has achieved his most adroit blend of fact and fancy in what is perhaps his best book since "This House of Sky." What sets Doig apart from others who have farmed the same terrain is the deft way he handles the fruits of his research; fact and anecdote are woven into the text with a light and often humorous touch.

"Chicago Sun-Times"Doig now has to be considered the premier writer of the American West.

E. Annie Proulxauthor of "Accordion Crimes" and "The Shipping News"Ivan Doig is one of the best we've got -- a muscular and exceedingly good writer who understands our hunger for stories.

David Laskin"The Washington Post""Bucking the Sun" is one of the books that takes you over as you read it, invading your daydreams, lodging its cadences in your brain, summoning you back to the page.

"Entertainment WeeklyBucking the Sun,.".derives its narrative energy from as tangled a web of familial and psychosexual rivalries as one is apt to encounter this side of "Hamlet" or "The Brothers Karamazov."

About the Author:

Ivan Doig (1939-2015) was a third-generation Montanan and the author of sixteen books, including the classic memoir This House of Sky and most recently Last Bus to Wisdom. He was a National Book Award finalist and received the Wallace Stegner Award, among many other honors. Doig lived in Seattle with his wife, Carol. Visit IvanDoig.com.

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