Steinbeck's Bitter Fruit
In the 1930s, John Steinbeck published In Dubious Battle, a novel based on union organizing and anti-union sentiment in the rich and fertile central valleys of California. He followed that with a series of articles in The San Francisco News, about poverty and starvation among the migrants in California. In 1939, he published The Grapes of Wrath, which became an instant American classic and the premier moral vision of the 1930s. The themes were: homelessness; joblessness; poverty; starvation and the greed of the banks. Now, 73 years later, it is all back. Lost homes and lost jobs by the hundreds of thousands,…
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- ISBN: 978-0-9832296-5-0
- EAN: 9780983229650
- Produktnummer: 13179423
- Verlag: New Century Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.8 cm 242 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 242
Über den Autor
Thomas Fensch is the author of 35 books of nonfiction. He has published five books on John Steinbeck; two each on James Thurber and Theodor Dr. Seuss Geisel; one each on Ernest Hemingway and Oskar Schindler; and a full biography of John Howard Griffin, author of Black Like Me. He has also published a variety of other nonfiction titles.
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