John Steinbeck

Book Résumé John Steinbeck: National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning novel set during the Great Depression. It focuses on the Joad family, poor tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industrial changes, and bank foreclosures. Due to their nearly hopeless situation, and in part because they are trapped in […]

Book Résumé John Steinbeck: They are an unlikely pair: George is “small and quick and dark of face”; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a “family,” clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California’s dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work