By Jeffrey Schultz, Luchen Li
"Critical spouse to John Steinbeck" celebrates this preeminent American author who in his works faced and explored the social textile of the USA within the early twentieth century. greater than 500 entries contain synopses of his novels, brief tales, and nonfiction; descriptions of his characters, from the Joad kin in "The Grapes of Wrath" to Lennie Small in "Of Mice and Men"; information about relatives, neighbors, and colleagues; information regarding movie and tv variations of Steinbeck's works; and discussions of locations that prompted Steinbeck - from Salinas, California, to Paris, France.
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