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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 Be

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Stegner has felt the spell of mountain and prairie, of drought, flood and blizzard...A harrowing saga. * The New York Times *
An irreplaceable classic...One of the great books from which we may understand America and its rise... * Robert Stone *

The Big Rock Candy Mountain

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 4 April 2013
      ISBN-13 9780141392349
      978-0141392349
      ISBN-10 0141392347

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 Be

      Trade Review
      Stegner has felt the spell of mountain and prairie, of drought, flood and blizzard...A harrowing saga. * The New York Times *
      An irreplaceable classic...One of the great books from which we may understand America and its rise... * Robert Stone *

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