082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Classification number |
Ste |
Item number |
2 |
092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
Classification number |
Ste |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Stegner, Wallace |
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
Big Rock Candy Mountain |
Statement of responsibility, etc |
Wallace Stegner |
246 ## - VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
Title proper/short title |
The big rock candy mountain |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Doubleday & Co |
Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1943 |
Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Garden City, New York |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
656 p. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc |
Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifing from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks outhis fortune--in the hotel business, on new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running through the threacherous back roads of the American Northwest. Bo chases after the promise of the American dream through Minnesota, the Dakotas, Saskatchewan, Montana, Utah and Nevada, but ultimately there is no escaping the devastating reach of the Depression and his own ruinous fate.
In this affecting narrative, a defining masterpiece by the "dean of Western writers" (The New York Times), Wallace Stegner portrays more than three decades in the life of the Mason family as they struggle to survivle during the lean years of the early twentieth century. |
590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) |
Local note |
39302 |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Source of heading or term |
Families |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Nomads |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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Koha item type |
Fiction |