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The Big Rock Candy Mountain - by Wallace Stegner (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair.
- About the Author: Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) was the author of, among other novels, Remembering Laughter, 1937; The Big Rock Candy Mountain, 1943; 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, 1977); Recapitulation, 1979; and Crossing to Safety, 1987.
- 656 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Classics
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About the Book
Bo Mason and his wife and two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair; drifting from town to town, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks his fortune. Stegner has created a masterful, harrowing saga of a family trying to survive during the lean years of the early 20th century.Book Synopsis
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.Review Quotes
"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
About the Author
Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) was the author of, among other novels, Remembering Laughter, 1937; The Big Rock Candy Mountain, 1943; 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, 1977); Recapitulation, 1979; and Crossing to Safety, 1987. His nonfiction includes Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, 1954; Wolf Willow, 1963; The Sound of Mountain Water (essays), 1969; The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto, 1974; and Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West (1992). Three of his short stories have won O. Henry Prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements. His Collected Stories was published in 1990.Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 5.1 Inches (W) x 1.3 Inches (D)
Weight: .97 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 656
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Classics
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Author: Wallace Stegner
Language: English
Street Date: November 28, 2017
TCIN: 81401220
UPC: 9780525435235
Item Number (DPCI): 247-06-5628
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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