Bucking the Sun (Paperback)

I. Doig

ISBN 10: 068483149X / ISBN 13: 9780684831497

Published by Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company), Hemel Hempstead, 1997

About this Item

Paperback. 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. The "most ambitious work to date" ("The Seattle Times") by the author of "Dancing at the Rascal Fair" and "English Creek", "Bucking the Sun" tells 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bucking the Sun (Paperback)
• Publisher: Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company), Hemel Hempstead
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 068483149X
• ISBN 13: 9780684831497
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

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.

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.