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"66 is the mother road. The road of flight."
The Dust Bowl exodus to California evokes the children of Israel's flight from Egypt and so the biblical and epic scope of this novel feels appropriate—and inevitable because it is Steinbeck. Also inevitable is that it is raw, coarse, humble, and its characters continuously utter blasphemous curses. As the reader takes up their travels with the Joads, they will begin to wonder...will these children of Israel wander in the desert for 40 years? Or will t ...more
The Dust Bowl exodus to California evokes the children of Israel's flight from Egypt and so the biblical and epic scope of this novel feels appropriate—and inevitable because it is Steinbeck. Also inevitable is that it is raw, coarse, humble, and its characters continuously utter blasphemous curses. As the reader takes up their travels with the Joads, they will begin to wonder...will these children of Israel wander in the desert for 40 years? Or will t ...more
A big minus for the characters. I couldn't get to them very well but the stunning prose almost makes up for it. A great example of beautiful descriptions that make the story's world vivid and very close not to mention a magnificent social commentary.
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