Bucking the Sun
A Westerns, Historical, Fiction book. I've loved others by Doig, but this one was a disappointment. It jumped around...
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.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 416 pages
- ISBN: 9780684831497 / 0
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I was all set to give this five stars until the last few pages threw me for a loop. From the very first chapter, you know what's going to happen at the end, but the mystery was who specifically was going to be involved. I had several guesses based on the little hints dropped along the way, but I was completely baffled by the actual... I've loved others by Doig, but this one was a disappointment. It jumped around so much between characters and scenes, sometimes with less that half a page on one character before jumping to another, that I really couldn't get to know or appreciate any of them. It didn't help any that their language, which I guess was supposed to be... A word of advice: Make sure to read Bucking the Sun prior to reading The Bartender's Tale as characters from the first book will reappear in the second. I read them out of sequence and would have enjoyed both more if read in proper order. That aside, Bucking the Sun is an entertaining story of a family of Duff men, their feisty women,...
