"The Big Rock Candy Mountain"
| Title | "The Big Rock Candy Mountain" |
| Year for Search | 2002 |
| Authors | Duncan, Andy [Andrew Robert](b. 1964) |
| Secondary Authors | Straub, Peter |
| Secondary Title | The New Wave Fabulists |
| Volume / Edition | Volume 39 of Conjunctions |
| Pagination | 211-31 |
| Date Published | 2002 |
| Publisher | Bard College |
| Place Published | Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | 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. |
| Additional Publishers | 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. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | (b. 1964) |
| Full Text | 2002 Duncan, Andy [Andrew Robert] (b. 1964). “The Big Rock Candy Mountain.” The New Wave Fabulists. Ed. Peter Straub. Volume 39 of Conjunctions (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: Bard College, 2002), 211-31. 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. PSt Story based on the song “The Big Rock Candy Mountains” apparently written by Harry K. McClintock (Haywire Mac) (1882-1957) 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. |
