by John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140187236
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«The Grapes of Wrath» is John Steinbeck's novel, published by Penguin in paperback (672 pages, in English).
The novel follows the Joad family, Oklahoma sharecroppers ruined by drought and crisis, who migrate to California seeking work. There the promise of prosperity proves a mirage: they find exploitation, hunger and rejection, along with the solidarity of the dispossessed. An epic of forced migration during the Great Depression.
Work originally published in 1939, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition with an introduction by Robert DeMott.
A classic of American literature, common on school and university reading lists, for those seeking a social chronicle of the Great Depression.
John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer and novelist. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters". One of the most widely read authors of the 20th century. He was also an independent journalist and war correspondent during World War II and the Vietnam War.
