Bucking the Sun

Name: Bucking the Sun
Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Ivan Doig
ISBN: 9780743540537

Author: Ivan Doig

Narrator: Will Patton

Abridged: 5 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Published: 01/01/1999

Categories: Fiction, Sagas, Small Town & Rural, Literary Fiction

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 Ivan Doig

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.

About Will Patton

Will Patton’s film credits include Halloween, Boarding School, Megan Leavey, American Honey, Meek’s Cutoff, A Mighty Heart, Remember the Titans, The Mothman Prophecies, Armageddon, and No Way Out. He starred in Swamp Thing on the DC Universe streaming platform and was seen in five seasons of the TNT series Falling Skies. He has won Obie Awards for his performances in Fool for Love and What Did He See? He is also known for his audiobook recordings of the work of Stephen King, James Lee Burke, Denis Johnson, and William Faulkner.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tim on January 02, 2010

"Bucking the Sun" makes even clearer Ivan Doig's worthiness to succeed Wallace Stegner as the foremost chronicler of lives in the American West, though in fact they weren't that far apart in age; Doig just got a later start. This fine novel about the construction of the Fort Peck Dam in Montana, a 1......more

Goodreads review by Carol on April 22, 2014

"Bucking the Sun" starts with the discovery of two bodies and the promise of a mystery to be solved. This "mystery" was hardly mentioned again and turned out to be little more than a footnote. In the meantime, I learned about dam building, New Deal projects , and Communist politics of the era. This......more

Goodreads review by Kris on May 23, 2015

I love Ivan Doig's writing! He captures Montana like no other writer I've come across. This book is slightly different than the others I've read in that it's kind of historical fiction. It's set during the depression, when the WPA decided to build a dam on the Missouri River, in northeastern Montana......more

Goodreads review by Darel on September 26, 2023

Fort Peck Dam building in the late 30’s. Interesting themes of the times- interest in the Communist Party in that area, the impact of the New Deal programs (this one of the biggest), the impact of bringing everyone in the area to a specific location, particularly for farmers and folks not used to be......more

Goodreads review by Mark on July 26, 2015

Bucking the sun is the expression given to riding, or driving, into the sun and maintaining your gaze forward enough to see your immediate path while averting your eyes from being blinded by the horizon. There are many layers to this work and each character has a struggle and point of view the the a......more