num_pages: 563
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.
language: English
title: The Big Rock Candy Mountain
titlecomplete: The Big Rock Candy Mountain
characters: Bruce Mason, Chester Mason, Elsa Mason, Bo Mason
genres: Audiobook, American, Canada, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, Westerns, Fiction
ratings_count: 8230
places: Salt Lake City, Utah, Saskatchewan, North Dakota
publisher: Penguin