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Anybody wanting to understand what life was like during the Depression should read this book. My maternal grandmother survived it. They lived in Kansas. They ate grass. Those years changed my grandmother forever. Having now read this book, I have a better understanding of her behavior. Steinbeck's novel is based on solid and extensive research, even if it is a book of fiction.
I am in a pickle. I cannot tell you whether by the end I found it to be depressing. That would be a spoiler. I will say ...more
I am in a pickle. I cannot tell you whether by the end I found it to be depressing. That would be a spoiler. I will say ...more
The Grapes of Wrath, the best-known novel by John Steinbeck, published in 1939. It evokes the harshness of the Great Depression and arouses sympathy for the struggles of migrant farmworkers.
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On the 22nd of March 2017 I finished reading for the first time my first Steinbeck novel. On the 18th of April 2017 I finished my fifth (The Grapes of Wrath) Steinbeck novel. Each book I have loved a little more than the last, and with each one I read I love Steinbeck a little more. Truly, I am a bit obsessed. He writes with such simplicity, and develops the characters with so much heart that I love each of them. They linger in my thoughts. I cry when they experience the tragedies of life -- and
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Jul 24, 2015
Charlotte Clementine
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