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- tonymazzariolet recommends The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, "Steinbeck ci fa salire tutti su quel vecchio Hudson, il camion zoppo con il quale la famiglia Joad abbandona un Oklaoma polveroso e sterile, per raggiungere (see more) un impossibile sogno californiano; ne sentiamo il rumore di ferraglia rugginosa e traballante, gli odori di oli e guarnizioni bruciate, delle masserizie affastellate, del sudore dei corpi: un veicolo incerto, come le loro vite scucite, srotolate lungo la Statale 66.
Ci conduce alle radici del capitalismo americano, delle sue connaturate contraddizioni, per le quali la vita umana è, da sola, senza “il possesso della roba”, niente, una variabile senza dignità.
E’ incredibile, variati gli scenari, l’attualità di questa storia di dannati Okies (oggi albanesi africani) Peccato il finale un po’ pedagogico.
Comunque un’emozione."
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To CAROL who willed it.
To TOM who lived it.  | |
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To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth. | |
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Now the going was easy, and all the legs worked, and the shell boosted along, waggling from side to side. A sedan driven by a forty-year-old woman approached. She saw the turtle and swung to the right, off the highway, the wheels screamed and a cloud of dust boiled up. Two wheels lifted for a moment and then settled. The car skidded back onto the road, and went on, but more slowly. The turtle had jerked into its shell, but now it hurried on, for the highway was burning hot.
And now a light truck approached, and as it came near, the driver saw the turtle and swerved to hit it. His front wheel struck the edge of the shell, flipped the turtle like a tiddly-wink, spun it like a coin, and rolled it off the highway. The truck went back to its course along the right side. Lying on its back, the turtle was tight in its shell for a long time. But at last its legs waved in the air, reaching for something to pull it over. Its front foot caught a piece of quartz and little by little the shell pulled over and flopped upright. The wild oat head fell out and three of the spearhead seeds stuck in the ground. And as the turtle crawled on down the embankment, its shell dragged dirt over the seeds. The turtle entered a dust road and jerked itself along, drawing a wavy shallow trench in the dust with its shell. The old humorous eyes looked ahead, and the horny beak opened a little. His yellow toe nails slipped a fraction in the dust.
[Penguin ed., pp. 15-16; Chapter 3]
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Please do not combine John Steinbeck's original 1939 novel, The Grapes of Wrath, with any film treatment, critical edition, notes (Monarch, Barron's, Sparks, Cliff, etc.), screenplay, or other adaptations of the same title. Thank you. | |
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When this novel was first published, it took both American and Britain by storm. It is the story of a dispossessed community, driven from its bit of land in Oklahoma by the implacable march of industrial progress. The big corporations which own the land the 'squatters' occupy decide that the time has come to mechanize agriculture — and so the bulldozers demolish overnight the small-holdings and cabins that represent so many years of hope and labour. Like their fathers before them, these displaced citizens of America set out on the migrant trail to the West, but not, alas, to find a land of plenty in the 'Golden West'. This novel is not only an indictment of industrial civilization but also a chronicle of the fortitude and devotion of the Common Man. | |
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▾Book descriptions Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0143039431, Paperback)
Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art. Of this initial group of six titles, The Grapes of Wrath is in a new edition with a completely revised introduction and, for the first time, detailed notes by leading Steinbeck scholar Robert DeMott. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers—and to the many who revisit them again and again. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:02 -0400) (see all 4 descriptions) ▾Open Shelves Classification The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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