The Big Rock Candy Mountain (Peguin Classics) - Softcover

Stegner, Wallace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143105787 ISBN 13: 9780143105787

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Stegner Wallace

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Críticas

"An irreplaceable classic . . . One of the great books from which we may understand America and its rise . . . It has not aged, and it seems unlikely that, as long as memory and history preserve the bringing forth of modern life on this continent, it will ever lose relevance." --Robert Stone, from the Introduction

"Stegner has felt the spell of mountain and prairie, of drought, flood, and blizzard. . . . A harrowing saga." --The New York Times

"Stands out beautifully and unforgettably." --The New Yorker

Reseña del editor

A defining masterpiece by the “dean of Western writers” (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety
 
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. In this affecting narrative, Wallace Stegner portrays over three decades in the life of the Mason family as they struggle to survive during the lean years of the early twentieth century.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0143105787
• ISBN 13: 9780143105787
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 656