Bucking the sun

Ivan Doig

earliest edition we have, 1996 Audioworks, 1999 audiobook

Thorndike large print Americana series

To "buck the sun" is to push on against the glare of sunrise or sunset. The "pushful" family at the center of this story is the Duffs, driven from the Montana bottomland to relief work on the New Deal's most audacious project - to stop the mighty Missouri with earth. "Goin' Owen," the engineer oldest son, must contend with kin as willful and unpredictable as the river itself: his twin brothers, quiet Neil and daredev...

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Bucking the Sun edition · 2013 · Scribner · 9781439125342
Bucking the sun paperback · 2003 · Scribner · 412 pages · 9780684831497
Bucking the Sun audiobook · 1999 · Audioworks · 9780671044183
Bucking the Sun audiobook · 1997 · Audioworks · 9780671573829
Bucking the sun edition · 1997 · Thorndike Press · 804 pages
Bucking the sun edition · 1996 · Simon & Schuster · 412 pages

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