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Ever since the Joads left Oklahoma's Dust Bowl in 1939 and set out for California, people have been flocking to the most populous state in the nation for what seems to have been a limitless pool of jobs. As Steinbeck's characters discovered the employment boom in California is often less spectacular than migrant's have been led to believe...
...place that America hasn’t known in decades, and it will be left up to the most talented artists amongst us to bring their struggle to film, books, poetry, painting, and anything else in a way that might finally bring change.Maybe we will finally have our own Steinbeck to distract us from the horrors of the market and the changes to our earth. Where are the Malcolm Xs, Janis Joplins, or Andy Warhols of today? Who will create the next “Guernica?” In the face of this social turmoil, where are the successors...
...best novel I've read in a long, long, long, long time...a literary feast of a book," Winfrey gushed on her show, saying it deserved to enter the cannon alongside works by John Steinbeck and Harper...
...talk show host said Franzen "was not even a blip on the radar screen of my life," although by 2003, she switched from picking contemporary books to classic titles, including John Steinbeck's East of Eden and Gabriel Garcí]a Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. Winfrey's picks boosted sales: Penguin ordered 800,000 more copies of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina after the 19th-Century Russian novel got the nod. But much of the publishing industry was dismayed at missing the chance to hitch their latest books - and their profits - to Oprah's train...
...best one doesn't always win. Miracle at St. Anna lugs its central narrative around much as Train does the statue head. And just as he rubs it for good luck, so Lee hopes the bonding of slow, sweet, huge Train and little Angelo - a kitschy mix of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Charlie Chaplin's The Kid - will propel audiences through the screeds on racism and the disasters...