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 r
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
β Scribed by Stegner, Wallace
- Book ID
- 107218428
- Publisher
- Penguin USA, Inc.
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 449 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ 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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