The Big Rock Candy Mountain (Part 1 of 2 parts)(Library Edition)
[This is Part 1 of a 2 part cassette audiobook edition.]
Bo Mason, his wife, and his 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 his fortune in the hotel business, in new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running throughout the treacherous back roads of the American Northwest.
Based largely on his own childhood, Stegner has created a masterful, harrowing saga of a family trying to survive during the lean years of the early twentieth century. It is the conflict between the hardscrabble existence and Bo's pursuit of the frontier myth and of the American dream that gives the book such resonance and power.
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About the Author:
WALLACE STEGNER (1903-1993) was the author of many books of fiction and non-fiction, including the National Book Award-winning The Spectator Bird (1976) and Crossing to Safety. Angle of Repose won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971.
Review:
Stegner has felt the spell of mountain and prairie, of drought, flood, and blizzard. . . .a harrowing saga. --New York Times
Stands out beautifully and unforgettably. --New Yorker
Stands out beautifully and unforgettably. --New Yorker
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- PublisherBlackstone Audio, Inc.
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1441717196
- ISBN 13 9781441717191
- BindingAudio Cassette
- Edition number2
- Number of pages9
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