The Big Rock Candy Mountain (CD-Audio)

from banjo123

"There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a well, some Big Rock Candy Mountain where life was effortless and rich and unrestricted and full of adventure and action, where something could be had for nothing." I loved this semi-...

from msf59

"the reflection of ecstasy and the shadow of tears." This is the story of the Mason family. Bo, Elsa and their two sons, Chet and Bruce. We follow them over thirty years, from Minnesota, North Dakota, Canada, Montana, Utah and a few other places in between. Bo is a restless, hot-tempered man, alw...

from coppers

The story of Bo Mason, a man "haunted by the dream of quick wealth and isn't quite unscrupulous enough to make his dream come true...he is a gambler who isn't quite gambler enough, who has a streak of penuriousness in him, a kind of dull Dutch caution, so that he gambles with one hand and holds b...

from nemoman

This is Stegner's coming-of-age , semi-autobiographical novel. Son of a "boomer", the protagonist constantly moves throughout the intermountain American West, driven by an alcoholic father always looking for the "main chance" and always fated to go bust. Solaced by an understanding mother, he str...

from Donna828

Bo Mason was smart, good-looking, and had "an ambition to get somewhere where the cream hadn't been skimmed off." (28) In other words, he wanted to take a shortcut to achieving the American Dream. He was a dreamer and a schemer who could be charming when things went his way, but, look out when ev...