The semi-autobiographical novel The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943) by Wallace Stegner follows the life of the Mason family (Bo and Elsa with their sons Chester and Bruce) during the early 20th Century in the United States and Canada. It spans a wide variety of settings. The book is structured in ten sections.
Famous quotes containing the words big, rock, candy and/or mountain:
““I’m quite as big for me, “ said he,
“As you are big for you.””
—John Kendrick Bangs (1862–1922)
“In Little Rock the people bear
Babes, and comb and part their hair
And watch the want ads, put repair
To roof and latch.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“I’m headed for a land that’s far away
Beside the crystal fountains.
So come with me, we’ll go and see
The Big Rock Candy Mountains.”
—Unknown. The Big Rock Candy Mountains (l. 5–8)
“The mountain held the town as in a shadow.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)