The pastures of heaven / John Steinbeck.
A wonderful early collection of interrelated stories, rich in the feeling for the land and for its hardworking people so characteristic of Steinbeck's work. In these twelve beautifully crafted, poignant stories Steinbeck charts the gradual disintegration of a peaceful farming community in a lush Cal...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bantam Books,
1951.
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| Series: | John R. Ford Paperback Collection.
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| Local Note: |
MSU: Copies 1 and 2 gifts of John and Susan Allen Ford.
MSU: Copy 1: 1st printing, May 1951. Bantam book 899. Cover illustration of a woman in a pink shirt and a white skirt standing by a door as a man in a blue shirt and a hat approaches.
MSU: Copy 2: 4th printing, November 1952. Bantam book 1066. Cover illustration of a woman in a white shirt and a striped skirt holding a bucket as a man standing next to her drinks from a ladle.
MSU: The material is stored offsite in Remote Storage. Please contact Special Collections 3 working days in advance if you wish to use it. |
| Physical Description: | 182 pages ; 17 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
| Abstract: |
A wonderful early collection of interrelated stories, rich in the feeling for the land and for its hardworking people so characteristic of Steinbeck's work. In these twelve beautifully crafted, poignant stories Steinbeck charts the gradual disintegration of a peaceful farming community in a lush California valley. As he writes of a family suddenly made to feel "poor" through the charity of a neighbor, of the wanton destruction of a retarded boy's tenuous hold on reality, and of a father jealous of suspected attentions paid to his daughter, Steinbeck movingly depicts the destructive impact of one family's insensitivity on the lives of all those around them. |
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| Call Number: | PS3537.T3234 P3 1951 |