John Steinbeck
Paperback | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 3.99 | 36654 Users | 1975 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Winter of Our Discontent |
| Author | : | John Steinbeck |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | August 26th 2008 by Penguin Classics (first published 1961) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Literature |
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Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck’s last novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With Ethan no longer a member of Long Island’s aristocratic class, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards.Set in Steinbeck’s contemporary 1960 America, the novel explores the tenuous line between private and public honesty that today ranks it alongside his most acclaimed works of penetrating insight into the American condition. This edition features an introduction and notes by Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw.
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| Original Title: | The Winter of Our Discontent |
| ISBN: | 0143039482 (ISBN13: 9780143039488) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Danny Taylor, Mr. Baker, Ethan Allen Hawley, Joey Morphy, Margie Young-Hunt, Alfio Maurello |
| Setting: | New Baytown(United States) New England(United States) |
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This is a great story. So well told. Its story telling at its absolute best.John Steinbeck's The Winter of our Discontent is a study of morality in the individual and in the community. Set in a New England town where everyone knows everyone else's business and history, Ethan Hawley narrates his experience with the various moral temptations one season offers him. Under pressure from associates and his own family, Ethan becomes increasingly dissatisfied with his diminished station in life and begins to consider a brief transformation, a temporary suspension of his
I think I have a crush on John Steinbeck. But even if I met him somewhere -- a cocktail party, a barbeque, even my own bookstore -- I don't think I'd talk to him. Maybe make eye contact in a brave and silent way. Sometimes I get the feeling that he is friendly and easy-going, compassionate and kind, and really interested in people in general and persons in particular ... but I know that he is deeply brilliant, and I would say something ridiculous that I would turn over and over in my head
I learned a lesson about why I should finish books, even if the story does not grip me and I find the protagonist boring. (Thanks, book club) Initially, I thought... oh man... middle aged man making bitter jokes out of his miserable life. I felt sorry for his wife. However, as I realized what was happening as I got farther and farther into the book, I found myself wishing there was a sequel because I want to know what happened to Ethan a year or two down the road. Was he able to live with
Wow! My head is reeling. I spent half of this novel in suspense, almost holding my breath, hoping that everything would turn out OK. The Winter of Our Discontent revolves around Ethan Hawley, a Harvard educated descendant of a wealthy family, who works as a grocery clerk to support his wife and two children. He is complex and fascinating - likable, flippant and so very frustrating. Nobody in the small Long Island town of New Baytown is quite what they seem, and the lines between right and wrong
Why do I even bother reading another author? Always in the nick of time I pick up a Steinbeck novel and it is a relief to read carefully and beautifully constructed sentences again. And the dialogue! This story delivered all the things I love and need from Steinbeck. As usual, it had me scribbling its sentences in my journal so that I may remember them and repeat them as my own. But I never will. I do not have it in me to summon these perfect, wise, funny things to say when they would be most
East of Eden was 600 some-odd pages and I didn't want it to end. This didn't reach 300 and it could not end soon enough. There was just nothing good about this; I cant believe this is a Steinbeck work. Moreover, not the work of a budding author still perfecting his craft, but an author who was in the winter of his profession, having already penned Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden and countless other works. The story is about Ethan Hawley, a man of noble ancestry reduced to a
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