Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Preface.- Chapter One: Steinbeck and the Short Story.- Chapter Two: Tortilla Flat, The Book of the Others.- Chapter Three: Journalism v Fiction.- Chapter Four: The Grapes of Wrath.- Chapter Five: The Sea of Cortez, A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research.- Chapter Six: World War II.- Chapter Seven: Cannery Row and The Pearl.- Chapter Eight: The Ed Ricketts Narratives.- Chapter Nine: East of Eden and the 1950s.- Chapter Ten: The Winter of Our Discontent.- Chapter Eleven: Travels with Charley In Search of America.- Chapter Twelve: The Nobel Prize for Literature.- Index