![]() ![]() Author: John Steinbeck Language: English Edition: Reissue Binding: Paperback Pages: 336 Publisher. ![]() In The Winter of Our Discontent, John Steinbeck, perhaps the master writer of the American working class, explores the cultural malaise of the 1960s and its far-ranging implications: social, familial, and personal. Buy a cheap copy of The Winter of Our Discontent (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck 0143039482 9780143039488 - A gently used book at a great low price. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards. Without status in the town, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Ethans late father lost the family fortune, and thus Ethan. ![]() 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.Įthan Allen Hawley, the novel's protagonist, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his prominent family once owned. The story concerns mainly Ethan Allen Hawley, a former member of Long Islands aristocratic class. From a swashbuckling pirate fantasy to a meditation on American morality-two classic Steinbeck novels make their black spine debuts ![]()
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