PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
John Steinbeck (1902-68) is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. During the 1930s, his works included The Red Pony, Pastures of Heaven, Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle, and Of Mice and Men. The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, earned him a Pulitzer Prize. In 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Brutality and tenderness mingle in these strangely moving pages. . . The reader is fascinated by a certainty of approaching doom. * Chicago Tribune * A short tale of much power and beauty. Mr. Steinbeck has contributed a small masterpiece to the modern tough-tender school of American fiction * Times Literary Supplement * A thriller, a gripping tale that you will not set down until it is finished. Steinbeck has touched the quick * New York Times *
