The Winter of Our Discontent
Book description
The Nobel committee claimed that while giving John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature that he had "resumed his place as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased feel for what is authentically American" with The Winter of Our Discontent.The main character of Steinbeck's final book, Ethan…
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1 author picked The Winter of Our Discontent as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Steinbeck is one of my favorite novelists (Willa Cather, the other) but boy did he run off the rails with this, his final book.
He describes an American society locked in irreversible decline, with everything getting worse and our polity doomed. Sixty years later the United States remains the envy of the world and almost every America today lives better materially, with more freedom and security, than almost everyone of 1961.
The novel is a reminder of the extent to which ideological negativity is ubiquitous in literature.
From Gregg's list on hope for the future.
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