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The Big Rock Candy Mountain

Wallace Stegner

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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, harrowing saga of people trying to survive during the lean years of the early twentieth century.

Language: English

Pages: 563

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 1943

ISBN 13: 9780140139396

The Big Rock Candy Mountain

Wallace Stegner

0/5 ( ratings)

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, harrowing saga of people trying to survive during the lean years of the early twentieth century.

Language: English

Pages: 563

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 1943

ISBN 13: 9780140139396

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