- Labor camps, Depressions, Labor camps in literature, Classic Literature
Steinbeck’s classic novel of the Great Depression is as vivid now as ever. The story focuses on a family of Oklahoma sharecroppers, farmers who work another man’s land for a share of the crops. Driven from their home by drought and poverty they take to the road in a battered old truck and make their way to California to look for work. When they arrive they find hundreds of others like them being forced to work for breadline wages. they begin working as fruit pickers, strike-breakers replacing the people who have been trying to establish a union but their consciences force them to leave.
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- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- John Steinbeck
- First published
- 1939
- Pages
- 544
- Publisher
- International Collectors Library, Random House Value Publishing, Egmont Books, Limited
- Editions
- 321
- Language
- cat, gre, tib, vie
- ISBN
- 9780582461536
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“To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.”
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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