The Big Rock Candy Mountain
About this book
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.
Reader Profile
4.2/5 · 9196 readers · 563 pages · ≈ 10 h 26 m · Challenging
How long does it take to read The Big Rock Candy Mountain?
About ≈ 10 h 26 m — 563 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is The Big Rock Candy Mountain?
563 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is The Big Rock Candy Mountain?
It sits on the Westerns, Fiction shelves.
Is The Big Rock Candy Mountain in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote The Big Rock Candy Mountain?
Wallace Stegner.