The novel that won John Steinbeck the Pulitzer Prise in 1940 endures as his masterpiece. An extraordinary bestseller and similtaneously a book which caused a storm of controversy, it remains one of the most powerful and persuasive novels of human tragedy and endurance ever written. The narrative follows the destiny of the Joads, a family of refugee farmers from Oklahoma who abandon the dustbowl to head west, for the fields and orchards of California. Travelling in a beat-up truck with all their possessions, they are impelled by hope of work, but the promised land turns out to be a world of labour camps, hungry people and broken dreams, the scene of an elemental conflict between migrant workers and company thugs.
- ISBN10 0822204754
- ISBN13 9780822204756
- Publish Date 1 December 1991 (first published 1 January 1950)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Imprint Dramatists Play Service
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 143
- Language English