THE VALLEY OF THE MOON

In the novel Billy and Saxon Roberts face the dismal labor situation of wage cuts, bitter and bloody strikes and the perpetual worry of unemployment that has always been the lot of those workers who have been fortunate enough to have jobs and utter despair for those who do not. Billy and Saxon, sickened by the situation in which they find themselves, leave the labor strife to set out on a quest to find a little valley of the moon where they can find a country paradise of their own.