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| AUTHOR: | John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott, Elaine A. Steinbeck |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | Library of America |
| ISBN: | 1883011159 |
| TYPE: | California, California, Gulf of, Classics, Fiction, Literary, Literary Criticism, Literature - Classics / Criticism, Marine invertebrates, Mexico, Migrant agricultural laborers, Salinas River Valley (Calif.), Social conditions, Social life and customs, Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968, Fiction / Literary |
| MEDIA: | Hardcover |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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it was great grapes of wrath is a great book. it is about a family that goes through ups and downs every chapter. and a man who wats to get his family back on track, cause his father lost his farm land in Oklahoma. So they head to California to find new jobs but there new jobs arn't the same as having there own land, cause when they had there own land they had no boss but when they head to Cali. they are not happy cause they are bossed around.
Steinbeck's Art
It is surely a shame that Mr. Steinbeck forever will be confined to the archipelago of socio-economico-political literature. Too often a smug reviewer writes of Steinbeck's "moving" portrayal of the Joad family and their struggle against a growing America. "Oh, how I can 'identify' with the Preacher!" HUMBUG. Mr. Steinbeck wrote words, not ideas. His art is exquisite and melodious and stock-full of imagery. His structure, even in the volumunious Grapes, is compact and economical. His style, even in the scientific Log, is artistic and exact. And his ideas, even in the idea-ed Harvest, are irrelevant. Buy this book. But don't buy it because the blurb on the back says something about the Joads being an American archetype of the twentieth century; instead, buy it because it is literature - American literature - at its finest. Every sentence. Every word.
A classic that is worth re-reading
I, like many, first read this _The Grapes of Wrath_ in high school. Then, it piqued a great curiosity about recent (this century) American history that my teachers could never satisfy. A recent re-reading, however, has shown me the great depth that I missed the first time. Read it slowly, savor the dogged, determined hopelessness that was life for many of our immediate ancestors. From the sad beginning to the desperate ending, it will teach you, and reach you.