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…
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November 28, 2017Wallace 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 includes The Sound of Mountain Water, The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto, and Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West. Three of his short stories won O. Henry Prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements.
Joe Hill
Wallace Stegner
Recapitulation
Wallace Stegner
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
Wallace Stegner
The Sound of Mountain Water
Wallace Stegner
The Spectator Bird
Wallace Stegner
The Uneasy Chair
Wallace Stegner
Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner
Collected Stories (Stegner, Wallace)
Wallace Stegner
American Places
Wallace Stegner and Page Stegner
The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
John Wesley Powell
On Teaching and Writing Fiction
Wallace Stegner
Crossing to Safety
Wallace Stegner
Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs
Wallace Stegner