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The Big Rock Candy Mountain
by Stegner, Wallace
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- Hardcover
- Signed
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1978. Signed Limited Edition. Fine in full light brown leather covered boards with extensive gilt decorations on the front and rear boards, four raised bands on the spine with gilt text stamping, decorations and ruled borders in the compartments. The end papers are silk, there is a silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine and the edges of the text block are in gilt. Signed by the author on the fourth free end paper. Laid-in is the 24 page pamphlet titled Notes From The Editors. Stegner states in the forward to the book that it was "The first of my books to acheieve wide recognition, The Big Rock Candy Mountain, was an attempt to capture in the experiences of a single family the social and psychological consequences of the ending of the f rontier and the pinching out of the American Dream. Of all my novels, it is the most deeply rooted in history and sociology." A novel of the pursuit of the American Dream by a family at the turn-of-the-century in the Pacific Northwest. 733 pages of text with illustrations by Charles Reid. A tight clean copy with absolutely no prior ownership markings.
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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- Town's End Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB26662
- Title
- The Big Rock Candy Mountain
- Author
- Stegner, Wallace
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Signed Limited Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center
- Date Published
- 1978
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