Bucking the Sun |
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| Author:
| Doig, Ivan |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7881-5700-4 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1998 |
| Publisher: | DIANE Publishing Company
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $23.00 |
Book Description:
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Around this eye-of-the-cyclone family swirls the epic that was Fort Peck and its cast of thousands -- con men and G-men, politicos and prostitutes, drawn by the workers who labored above, below and beside the river, through sweltering heat and winters so savage ice formed inside their shanties. And always, there is the river, restlessly eddying toward a tragedy that will entrap some and pardon others. "I have long felt about Ivan Doig's books much as Will Rogers must have felt about...
More DescriptionAround this eye-of-the-cyclone family swirls the epic that was Fort Peck and its cast of thousands -- con men and G-men, politicos and prostitutes, drawn by the workers who labored above, below and beside the river, through sweltering heat and winters so savage ice formed inside their shanties. And always, there is the river, restlessly eddying toward a tragedy that will entrap some and pardon others. "I have long felt about Ivan Doig's books much as Will Rogers must have felt about his fellow human beings -- I've never met one I didn't like. Doig has concentrated his immense writing talents on telling this epic tale.