The Boston Globe, June 3rd, 1996
BUCKING THE SUN By Ivan Doig Simon & Schuster, 412 pp., $23 Montana was once mainly famous as Big Sky Country, but lately, what with accused mad bombers in its rugged hills, holed-up antigovernment ranchers defying the law and reclusive movie stars, it has gotten attention for tales of fact stranger than fiction. Now Ivan Doig, a native Montanan, has woven an epic-size novel in "Bucking the Sun," and one wonders if there's something about the state's very extremes of sky and earth that draw out this rush of plot and character. One family is at the center of the story. From mettlesome mother Me...
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