TY - ABST T1 - "The Big Rock Candy Mountain" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Andy [Andrew Robert] Duncan (b. 1964) ED - Peter Straub KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Story based on the song "The Big Rock Candy Mountains" apparently written by Harry K. McClintock (Haywire Mac) around 1905 based on earlier oral sources. The song is generally identified with the depression of the 1930s when it became popular. The story uses the basic motif of the song of a hobos paradise contrasted to the world outside.

JF - The New Wave Fabulists PB - Bard College CY - Annandale-on-Hudson, NY VL - Volume 39 of Conjunctions N1 -

Rpt. in his The Pottawatomie Ghost and Other Stories (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2012), 41-62, with an author's story note on 309-10; and in his An Agent of Utopia: New & Selected Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2018), 141-65.

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