- John Steinbeck, Nobel Prize winner, Classic, American
***The ambitions, dreams, failings, and innermost thoughts of a diverse group of passengers are revealed as they travel aboard a bus along the back roads of California.***
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Earnest, prestige, contemplative and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- John Steinbeck
- First published
- 1947
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Corgi, Bantam, G.K. Hall
- Editions
- 53
- Language
- fin, Dutch, tur, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9780749317775
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John Steinbeck was an American writer. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel *The Grapes of Wrath* (1939) and the novella *Of Mice and Men* (1937). He wrote a total of 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and five collections of short stories. In 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature ([Source][1]). [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck
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