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The Big Rock Candy Mountain

By Wallace Stegner

By Wallace Stegner

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Nov 28, 2017 | ISBN 9780525435235

The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner
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About The Big Rock Candy Mountain

Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifing from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks outhis fortune–in the hotel business, on new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running through the threacherous back roads of the American Northwest. Bo chases after the promise of the American dream through Minnesota, the Dakotas, Saskatchewan, Montana, Utah and Nevada, but ultimately there is no escaping the devastating reach of the Depression and his own ruinous fate.

In this affecting narrative, a defining masterpiece by the “dean of Western writers” (The New York Times), Wallace Stegner portrays more than three decades in the life of the Mason family as they struggle to survivle during the lean years of the early twentieth century.

With an introduction by Robert Stone.

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About Wallace Stegner

Wallace Stegner (1909–1993) was the author of, among other novels, All the Little Live Things (winner of a Commonwealth Club Gold Medal), Angle of Repose (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and The Spectator Bird (winner of the National Book Award). His nonfiction… More about Wallace Stegner

Product Details

Category: Literary Fiction

Paperback | $18.00
Published by Vintage
Nov 28, 2017 | 656 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780525435235

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Praise

“Stegner has felt the spell of mountain and prairie, of drought, flood, and blizzard…. A harrowing saga.” —The New York Times

“Stands out beautifully and unforgettably.” —The New Yorker

“The most important book Wallace Stegner has done.” —Kirkus Reviews

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