'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.'
Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires and powerlessness, yet out of their struggle Steinbeck created a drama that is both intensely human and majestic in its scale and moral vision.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780141394886
Number of pages: 688
Dimensions: 180 x 112 x 33 mm
Weight: 364 g
Language: English
A novelist who is also a true poet - Sunday Times
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It begins slowly but stick with it as you gradually get drawn in to the lives of the main characters. One of those rare books that when you finish you just think wow! Weeks after finishing the book it is still thought... More
This is a powerful book about a period of American history seen through the eyes of a simple family from Oklahoma. The is tremendous economic and environmental hardship at the time the book is set, and the Joad family... More
One of those books you yearn to read for decades and when it happens, by heck it grabs you. The characters and their surroundings and all that occurs, oh my it's just so absorbing and you 'feel' like... More
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