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A series of successful novels dealing
with the downtrodden in his native California
(Tortilla Flat, 1935; In Dubious Battle,
1936; Of Mice and Men, 1937; and The Long
Valley, 1938) preceded John Steinbeck's Grapes of
Wrath (1939), which made the Joad Family, displaced
Oklahoma farmers in California, a household word and was
hailed even on publication as the greatest modern
American novel. Its frank language and honest depiction
of sordid conditions brought Steinbeck censorship and
much verbal abuse; but the novel won the Pulitzer Prize
for 1940 and more than anything subsequently written
gained for Steinbeck the Nobel Prize for Literature in
1962.
Our copy is a first edition signed by the author, "For
Brooks and Cy--in grateful memory of a hell of a lot of
horse shit."
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