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The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott
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Overview

Winner of the 1990 Tony Award and Outer Critics Circle Award. A powerful and deeply affecting stage version of one of the masterpieces of American literature. Holding to the simplicity and directness of the original novel, the play uses the sparest of technical means to convey its timeless message of the persistence and strength of the human spirit as it battles against the adversities of nature and an uncaring society.

Synopsis

Winner of the 1990 Tony Award and Outer Critics Circle Award. A powerful and deeply affecting stage version of one of the masterpieces of American literature. Holding to the simplicity and directness of the original novel, the play uses the sparest of technical means to convey its timeless message of the persistence and strength of the human spirit as it battles against the adversities of nature and an uncaring society.

The New York Times

Majestic...leaves one feeling that the generosity of spirit he saw in a brutal country is not so much lost as waiting once more to be found.

About the Author, John Steinbeck

Chronicling American dreams destroyed by either injustice or the simple difficulty of the world, John Steinbeck left lasting testaments to the struggles of working people in The Grapes of Wrath and Cannery Row. His refusal to water down his realistic work got some of his books banned and earned him a Nobel Prize.

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From Barnes & Noble

John Steinbeck's 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; became an international bestseller; and inspired an Academy Award-winning movie and an Emmy-winning play. Seventy years have not weakened the emotional force of this gripping fiction about a Dust Bowl family forced to move west during the Great Depression.

NY Times

...majestic...leaves one feeling that the generosity of spirit he saw in a brutal country is not so much lost as waiting once more to be found.

NY Post

This is, overall, a thrilling theatrical achievement that gets its power from the still sharp relevance of its human message...

NY Magazine

THE GRAPES OF WRATH is a lesson in history, stagecraft, and truth that we cannot afford not to learn.

Time Magazine

Steinbeck's best novel.

The New York Times

Majestic...leaves one feeling that the generosity of spirit he saw in a brutal country is not so much lost as waiting once more to be found.

New York Magazine

The Grapes of Wrath is a lesson in history, stagecraft, and truth that we cannot afford not to learn.

The New York Post

This is, overall, a thrilling theatrical achievement that gets its power from the still sharp relevance of its human message...

Peter Monro Jack

It is a very long novel, the longest that Steinbeck has written, and yet it reads as if it had been composed in a flash, ripped off the typewriter and delivered to the public as an ultimatum. Steinbeck has written a novel from the depths of his heart with a sincerity seldom equaled.-- New York Times Books of the Century, 1939

Time Magazine

Steinbeck's best novel.

Book Details

Published
March 1, 2006
Publisher
Penguin Group (USA)
Pages
544
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780143039433

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