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| You are here -> HOME - RETROVILLE - 1940 | - Pulitzer Prize - The Grapes of Wrath | |||||||||||||
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| Welcome to Retroville! It's 1940! | ||||||||||||||
| In 1939, through Viking Penguin, Inc., John Steinbeck published his Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath. According to the book jacket written by Penguin Press, Inc., the publisher since 1976, the story is described as: "THE EPIC STORY OF THE JOAD FAMILY'S MIGRATION FROM THE OKLAHOMA DUST BOWL TO THE PROMISED LAND OF CALIFORNIA In stark and moving detail, John Steinbeck depicts the lives of ordinary people striving to preserve their humanity in the face of social and economic desperation. When the Joads lose their tenant farm in Oklahoma, they join thousands of others, traveling the narrow concrete highways toward California and the dream of a piece of land to call their own. Each night on the road, they and their fellow migrants recreate society: leaders are chosen, unspoken codes of privacy and generosity evolve, and lust, violence, and murderous rage erupt. A portrait of the bitter conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of a woman's quiet, stoical strength, The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature, one that captures the horrors of the Great Depression as it probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. " |
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