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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

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The Duff family are homesteaders who move from their alfalfa farm to work on the Fort Peck Dam, a New Deal project.[3]

Reception

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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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  1. ^ "Two Medicine Country Series by Ivan Doig".
  2. ^ Freeman, Judith (12 May 1996). "A Big Story Under the Big Sky : FICTION : BUCKING THE SUN,By Ivan Doig". Los Angeles Times.
  3. ^ Bucking the Sun. 13 May 1997. ISBN 9780684831497.
  4. ^ Foote, Timothy (16 June 1996). "The Dammed". The New York Times.
  5. ^ "Bucking the Sun". Kirkus Reviews.