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Loading... Conversations With John Steinbeck (Literary Conversations) (original 1988; edition 1980)by Thomas Fensch
Work InformationConversations With John Steinbeck (Literary Conversations Series) by Thomas Fensch (1988)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. John Steinbeck is just a great amiable guy. He's America like John Wayne and baseball and I put money on him in a fistfight with Hemingway any day. His genius is greatly de-emphasized, I think. He is the greatest U.S. writer that ever lived. His interviews and these articles are greatly revealing and well worth the read. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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Conversations with John Steinbeck contains all the public interviews Steinbeck gave during his life. His life, it seems in retrospect, can be seen in three phases: his early life in his native state of California; the war years of the 1940s, and the years thereafter. In the earliest interviews in this collection, his is seen actually hiding from publicity, living in and near Monterey Bay, California, as he struggled to become established as a writer. Later, the publication of The Grapes of' Wrath, in 1939, became extremely controversial; he left the country for a time to escape the unceasing demands of' the press and the public. The Grapes of Wrath is now generally considered the definitive novel of Depression-era America and is still widely read. Interviews in this collection show him dealing with two failed marriages before a successful third marriage; moving from one writing project to another, dealing with fame and controversy and traveling. These collected interviews offer a unique portrait of a major twentieth-century novelist at work and throughout his life. John Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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