{"product_id":"big-rock-candy-mountain-the","title":"Big Rock Candy Mountain The By Stegner   Wallace","description":"\u003cp\u003eBo 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this affecting narrative, Wallace Stegner portrays more than thirty years in the life of the Mason family as they struggle to survive during the lean years of the early twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWallace Stegner was the author of, among other works of fiction, \u003ci\u003eRemembering Laughter\u003c\/i\u003e (1973); \u003ci\u003eJoe Hill\u003c\/i\u003e (1950); \u003ci\u003eAll the Little Live Things\u003c\/i\u003e (1967, Commonwealth Club Gold Medal); \u003ci\u003eA Shooting Star\u003c\/i\u003e (1961); \u003ci\u003eAngle of Repose\u003c\/i\u003e (1971, Pulitzer Prize); \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator Bird\u003c\/i\u003e (1976, National Book Award); \u003ci\u003eRecapitulation \u003c\/i\u003e(1979); \u003ci\u003eCrossing to Safety\u003c\/i\u003e (1987); and \u003ci\u003eCollected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (1990). His nonfiction includes \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Hundredth Meridian\u003c\/i\u003e (1954); \u003ci\u003eWolf Willow\u003c\/i\u003e (1963); \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of Mountain Water\u003c\/i\u003e (essays, 1969); \u003ci\u003eThe Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard deVoto\u003c\/i\u003e (1964); \u003ci\u003eAmerican Places\u003c\/i\u003e (with Page Stegner, 1981); and \u003ci\u003eWhere the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West \u003c\/i\u003e(1992). Three short stories have won O.Henry prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e for his lifetime literary achievements.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57595762409854,"sku":"NW9780141392349","price":12.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141392349.jpg?v=1783226092","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/big-rock-candy-mountain-the","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}