The Big Rock Candy Mountain

By: Wallace Stegner

Published March 1st 1991 by Penguin (first published 1943)

Category: Arts

Pages: 563 pages

ISBN: 9780140139396

Description:
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.