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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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It took me a month to busily wind through this story and here at the end it's as if I've closed the flap on 3 or 4 different books so vast is it in its depth and scope. I see this Wallace Stegner classic sitting in a lot of ‘to read' piles on GoodReads and as enticement I would offer that this book is the perfect reading project as you sit idly watching almost everything fall or wander off or blow away just to finally give up, curl up and then dry out as we head into winter. If you're prone to melancholy I would try to finish it before the sun disappears for months on end.