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Author Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.

Title The winter of our discontent / John Steinbeck ; introduction and notes by Susan Shillinglaw.

Publication Info. New York : Penguin Books, 2008.
©1961
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1494841~S1
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 Nichols Teen Fiction  TEEN STEINBEC    AVAILABLE
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Description xxxiii, 291 pages ; 20 cm
Series Penguin classics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [xxxi]-xxxiii).
Contents Introduction / Susan Shillinglaw -- Suggestions for further reading -- Winter Of Our Discontent -- Explanatory notes.
Summary From the Publisher: From a swashbuckling pirate fantasy to a meditation on American morality-two classic Steinbeck novels make their black spine debuts. In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had "resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American." Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of the novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With the decline in their status, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards.
Subject Grocery trade -- Employees -- Fiction.
Conduct of life -- Fiction.
Genre Domestic fiction.
Didactic fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Added Author Shillinglaw, Susan.
ISBN 9780143039488 (pbk.)
0143039482 (pbk.)
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August 13 2013
SRP 2013 REVIEW: One of my favorite Steinbeck pieces! Can't go wrong with his books.
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