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John Steinbeck : a biography /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Parini, Jay
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : H. Holt, 1996
Edition:1st Owl Book ed.
Subjects:
Steinbeck, John, > 1902-1968.
Novelists, American > 20th century > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • The fiction of origins
  • The Stanford years
  • In the wilderness
  • A young buccaneer
  • A true liking
  • The heavenly valley
  • The sorrow of his house
  • The front line of poverty
  • Writing the big book
  • The road to canonization
  • A very personal war
  • "The genial famous man"
  • An uncertain homecoming
  • A new life
  • "The pleasure of design and some despair"
  • New thinking about writing
  • The consolations of a landscape
  • It must have been good
  • A time for recovery
  • "Bright is the ring of words".