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PENGUIN TWENTIETH-CENTURY CLASSICS
JOHN STEINBECK
The Winter of Our Discontent
"In this book John Steinbeck returns to the high standards of The Grapes of Wrath and to the social themes that made his early work so impressive, and so powerful." —Saul Bellow
Ethan Hawley, a descendant of proud New England sea captains, works as a clerk in the grocery store owned by an Italian immigrant. His wife is restless; his teenaged children are troubled and discontented, 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.
The Nobel Committee, in awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize for literature, 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."
"A poignant, bitter, deeply ironic comment on the lessening of American standards" —San...
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PENGUIN TWENTIETH-CENTURY CLASSICS
JOHN STEINBECK
The Winter of Our Discontent
"In this book John Steinbeck returns to the high standards of The Grapes of Wrath and to the social themes that made his early work so impressive, and so powerful." —Saul Bellow
Ethan Hawley, a descendant of proud New England sea captains, works as a clerk in the grocery store owned by an Italian immigrant. His wife is restless; his teenaged children are troubled and discontented, 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.
The Nobel Committee, in awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize for literature, 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."
"A poignant, bitter, deeply ironic comment on the lessening of American standards" —San Francisco Chronicle
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
Cover painting: Edward Hopper, Adam's House, 1928. The Rolland P. Murdock Collection, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas.
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