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Book Review of Bucking the Sun

Bucking the Sun
Bucking the Sun
Author: Ivan Doig
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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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.