STEINBECK/GRAPES OF WRATH (BC)
John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath tells the specific story of the Joad family, and thus illustrates the hardships and oppression suffered by migrant laborers during the Great Depression.
The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962.
But he admitted that growers had been wrong to insist up until the early 1970s that laborers use a shorthandled hoe, “stoops” bending over rows of lettuce and strawberries. (“A man . . . must crawl like a bug between the rows of lettuce ...
It chronicles the story of Tom Joad and his family, who, like thousands of others, are compelled to go west in quest of the promised land, set against the backdrop of Dust Bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life.
Presents the drama version of Steinbeck's story of the Joad family's struggle for survival during the Depression.
Presents a collection of critical essays on Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, arranged in chronological order of publication.
The second volume in The Library of America’s authoritative edition of John Steinbeck features his acknowledged masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath. Written in an incredibly compressed five-month period, the novel...
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, which was the best selling book in 1939 and won the National Book Award.
"Traces the migration of an Oklahoma Dust Bowl family to California and their subsequent hardships as migrant farm workers."--Amazon.com.
John Steinbeck's compelling novel of social justice chronicles the suffering of migrant workers in Dust Bowl-era United States.