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He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939 and the novella Of Mice and Men, published in 1937. If he had dug a little deeper he might have discovered that the author of the book, John Steinbeck, was also once a member of the Communist Party.

Once I got going, I couldn't quit reading.It took me years to get to it and then I found the opening slow and almost gave up.

It scares the poop out of me because, my fellow Americans, we are repeating history. 4 4

In all, he wrote twenty-five books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and several collections of short stories.

At his best Steinbeck subtly captures the nuances of family bonds and draws a forceful realist portrait of An unflinching look at the toil endured during the Depression by Okies, uprooted from their home and dispossessed of their sense of belonging in the wake of the Dust Bowl.

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He saw that his son was being required to read it, recalled reading the book aI first read Grapes of Wrath in high school, then again taught it in a rural parochial (Christian) high school) in western Michigan in the late seventies.

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Tractors invade the barren plains, ruining crops, demolishing houses, stripping farmers of their livelihood, leaving only billows of dust and ransacked land behind. We’d love your help.

I loved teaching that book, that had been a staple of the Modern Novels elective class there for many years, but that year one of the more conservative parents complained to the school board that the book was immoral, not consistent with the values of the community.

Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and at long last crossing the Colorado River into the paradise of California, with high mountains and hot steaming deserts, discovering more desert wastelands and still hundreds of miles to the fertile, prosperous , pretty, fabulously wealthy valley of San Joaquin the richest one on the planet.

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After their drought-ridden farm is seized by the bank, the family -- led by just-paroled son Tom -- loads up a truck and heads West. Seeing black and white pictures tell only a small portion of this, the real story that John Steinbeck wrote about masterfully in his novel The Grapes of Wrath.

An unflinching look at the toil endured during the Depression by Okies, uprooted from their home and dispossessed of their sense of belonging in the wake of the Dust Bowl.

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And it was weird and gross and then the book was over.

The affluent farmers keep cutting the wages 30 cents an hour, 25, 20 and dropping how can the workers survive?

In all, he wrote twenty-five books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and several collections of short stories. Yes, it's grim and unfair, but it's no longer shocking or disturbing, and I can see now that Steinbeck didn't intend sensationalism to be the main point.

January 1st 1996

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If you are an American you need to read The Grapes of Wrath. I didn't get on with it at all despite trying to read it twice.