The Big Rock Candy Mountain, Part 2 of 2
A Audiobook, Literary Fiction, Classics book. People, he had said, were always being looked at as points, and they ought to be looked at as...
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- Pages: 9 pages
- ISBN: 9781441724755 / 1441724753
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girl of eighteen named Elsa Norgaard, Wallace Stegner, The Big Rock Candy Mountain // Where do I belong in this country? Where is home? Wallace Stegner, The Big Rock Candy Mountain // People, he had said, were always being looked at as points, and they ought to be looked at as lines. There weren't any points, it was false to assume that a person ever was anything. He was always becoming something, always changing, always continuous and moving, like the wiggly line on a machine used to measure earthquake shocks. He was always what he was in the beginning, but never quite exactly what he was; he moved along a line dictated by his heritage and his environment, but he was subject to every sort of variation within the narrow limits of...
Why couldn't Stegner be decent and write a book with an antagonist toward whom I could detachedly direct my righteous indignation? Instead, he wrote the Big Rock Candy Mountain with Bo, who is not one of Cormac McCarthy's depraved evil doers. Jarringly, and despite what you might believe otherwise, Bo is me, only in different circumstances.... This book moved me to tears. Perhaps that is because I am in my seventies and have lived and witnessed much of what Wallace Stegner writes about. Perhaps it is because I have come to understand how complex human beings are and how easily they can bring injury and hardship upon the people they love.The novel begins in the year 1905 in... Wallace Stegner created a protracted morality tale with The Big Rock Candy Mountain . The novel's key protagonist, the person who makes rash decisions that reverberate, is Bo Mason, a man with gumption worth admiring, yet an individual who is ultimately despicable, as he drags his family around the Northern-Western parts of America...
