Steinbeck's Bitter Fruit by Thomas Fensch

Steinbeck's Bitter Fruit by Thomas Fensch

In the 1930s, John Steinbeck published In Dubious Battle, a novel based on union organizing and anti-union sentiment in the rich and fertile central valleys of California. He followed that with a series of articles in The San Francisco News, about poverty and starvation among the migrants in California. In 1939, he published The Grapes of Wrath, which became an instant American classic and the premier moral vision of the 1930s. The themes were: homelessness; joblessness; poverty; starvation and the greed of the banks. Now, 73 years later, it is all back. Lost homes and lost jobs by the hundreds of thousands, poverty, starvation and the greed of the banks. Steinbeck's vision of the 1930s is with us again.

Thomas Fensch is the author of 36 nonfiction books, including five biographies of John Steinbeck, two biographies of Theodor Dr. Seuss and James Thurber, one biographies of Ernest Hemingway and Oskar Schindler, and the sole entire biography of John Howard Griffin, the author of the American classic Black Like Me. Fensch is also the author of a number of nonfiction books. He resides outside of Richmond, Virginia, and has a degree from Syracuse University.

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ISBN 13	9780983229643
ISBN 10	0983229643
Title	Steinbeck's Bitter Fruit
Author	Thomas Fensch
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Publisher	New Century Books
Year published	2012-05-11
Number of pages	160
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