The Pastures of Heaven (Mandarin classic)
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (918 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0749324120 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Don DeLillo)" . John Steinbeck knew and understood America and Americans better than any other writer of the twentieth century. (The Dallas Morning News) A man whose work was equal to the vast social themes that drove him
Craig Chalquist, PhD, author of TERRAPSYCHOLOGY and DEEP CALIFORNIA said lovely but misunderstood. Steinbeck's book comes with this comment on the back cover: "Each of these self-contained stories is linked to the others by the presence of the Munroes, a family whose misguided behavior and lack of sensitivity precipitate disasters and tragedies." This opinion, which the author of the Introduction seems to endorse, strikes me as a very surface take on the deeper significance of these stories.The Munroes do show up in all of them; but wh. "Enchanting cycle of stories" according to M. C Cardoso. Steinbeck was a young man and unknown writer when he wrote and first published this book, but you wouldn't know it by the beautiful prose and the moving set of stories, all taking place in Pastures of Heaven, an idilic valley in early-20th-century Monterey County, California.This is an accessible book, populated with a diverse group of memorable characters that reflect many aspects of human nature. Also very present is Steinbeck's love fo. More than short stories, less than a novel W. V. Buckley I had never heard of Steinbeck's Pastures of Heaven before stumbling across it by accident. Since this book has never had the fame of Steinbeck's later novels - East of Eden, Grapes of Wrath, etc. - it's unfamiliar to many readers. It's shouldn't be! These laconic inter-connected stories tell of the people who come to make their homes in the Salinas Valley. Some folks send out roots and live there for generations. Others move though the s
Another spellbinding adventure in the popular Bolitho series, this thrilling novel follows The Only Victor, of which The Nautical Magazine said, "Seamen will particularly appreciate the way the author succeeds in bringing to life on his pages the whole feel of ships, their companies and the sea in all its moods".
After marriage and a move to Pacific Grove, he published two California books, The Pastures of Heaven (1932) and To a God Unknown (1933), and worked on short stories later collected in The Long Valley (1938). During the next five years he supported himself as a laborer and journalist in New York City, all the time working