Cover of The Big Rock Candy Mountain

The Big Rock Candy Mountain

by Unknown Author

2010Penguin BooksISBN 9780143105787
FictionLiteratureFamiliesWest (u.s.), fictionFiction, generalFiction, family lifeFiction, sagasFiction, family life, generalWestern storiesAmerican literature
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Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks out his fortune—in the hotel business, in new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running through the treacherous back roads of the American Northwest.Stegner portrays more than thirty years in the life of the Mason family in this masterful, harrwoing saga of people trying to survive during the lean years of the early twentieth century.

Publication Details

Publisher
Penguin Books
Published
2010
ISBN
9780143105787

About Unknown Author

Wallace Earle Stegner was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, often called "The Dean of Western Writers". He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977. - wikipedia

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