The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241980348 ISBN 13: 9780241980347

Publisher: Penguin, 2017

'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.'

Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl, the Joads, a family of sharecroppers, decide they have no choice but to follow. They head west, towards California, where they hope to find work and a future for their family. But while the journey to this promised land will take its inevitable toll, there remains uncertainty about what awaits their arrival . . .

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Grapes of Wrath is an epic human drama, with a stunning new cover by renowned artist Bijou Karman.

Review:

A warm-hearted celebration of the persistence of the human spirit (Guardian)

Magnificent (New York Times)

Steinbeck's writings form a photograph album of America (Guardian)

There is no more impressive writer on either side of the Atlantic (Time and Tide)

A novelist who is also a true poet (Sunday Times)

Book Description:

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, about economic migration and the endurance of the human spirit.