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The Big Rock Candy Mountain
by Stegner, Wallace
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Germantown, New York, United States
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About This Item
The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner
Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1943. 5-3/4" x 8-1/2", 515 pgs. First Edition, second printing, "war edition." Hardcover, light blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding but clean, unmarked and still in good condition. Without the jacket (as shown.)
About the book: The Big Rock Candy Mountain is set in the Mountain West and Canada in the first three decades of the 20th century. A semi-autobiographical novel by the Pulitzer prize winning novelist Wallace Stegner, it follows the fortunes of the Mason family as they struggle to survive the lean years of the early twentieth century.
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. Stegner portrays more than thirty years in the life of the Mason family in this masterful, harrwoing saga of people trying to survive during the lean years of the early twentieth century.
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- Bookseller
- Camphor Bookstore
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Biblio1088
- Title
- The Big Rock Candy Mountain
- Author
- Stegner, Wallace
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Duell, Sloan and Pearce
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Wallace Stegner, Montana, family drama, the Depression, American writers, Saskatchewan, the Dakotas, the American dream, bootlegging, prohibition, American novels, Stanford, Angle of Repose
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