Bucking the Sun
1996 novel by Ivan Doig From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bucking the Sun is a novel by American author Ivan Doig, published in 1996. It is the fourth book in Doig's Two Medicine Country series.[1] The title refers to "working against the glare of sunrise or sunset".[2]
Plot
The Duff family are homesteaders who move from their alfalfa farm to work on the Fort Peck Dam, a New Deal project.[3]
Reception
Timothy Foote of the New York Times described the novel as "a neat, excruciating Agatha Christie country-house murder set down in sprawling Montana."[4] Kirkus Reviews gave the book a mixed review: "The Duffs are believable but not memorable; Steinbeck this writer is not. Doig's real achievement is to chronicle—with empathy and precise, lyrical authority, down to the last load of gravel hauled in a sturdy Ford truck—the magnificent Fort Peck project and the desperate times out of which it arose."[5]
References
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