The Grapes of Wrath by Robert DeMott - ISBN: 9780141394886
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Dust Bowl family’s desperate journey west exposes the American Dream’s betrayal.

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    688 pages

  • Release Date

    28 May 2014

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Summary

A 75th anniversary edition of Steinbeck’s undisputed masterpiece, a panoramic vision of the betrayal of the American dream

“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 Pulitzer 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 …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141394886
ISBN-10:0141394889
Author:Robert DeMott, John Steinbeck
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:688
Release Date:28 May 2014
Weight:364g
Dimensions:180mm x 112mm x 33mm
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
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A novelist who is also a true poet

A novelist who is also a true poet * Sunday Times *

About The Author

Robert DeMott

John Steinbeck (1902-68) is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. During the 1930s, his works included The Red Pony, Pastures of Heaven, Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle, and Of Mice and Men. The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, earned him a Pulitzer Prize. In 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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