The Big Rock Candy Mountain [electronic resource]
Wallace Stegner2013
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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.
In this affecting narrative, Wallace Stegner portrays more than thirty years in
the life of the Mason family as they struggle to survive during the lean years
of the early twentieth century.
Wallace Stegner was the author of, among other works of fiction, Remembering
Laughter (1973); Joe Hill (1950); All the Little Live Things (1967, Commonwealth
Club Gold Medal); A Shooting Star (1961); Angle of Repose (1971, Pulitzer
Prize); The Spectator Bird (1976, National Book Award); Recapitulation (1979);
Crossing to Safety (1987); and Collected Stories (1990). His nonfiction includes
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian (1954); Wolf Willow (1963); The Sound ...
Main title:
The Big Rock Candy Mountain [electronic resource] / Wallace Stegner
Author:
Wallace Stegner, Author
Imprint:
United Kingdom : Penguin, 2013
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (640 pages,)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780718197452
Language:
English
BRN:
433462
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