Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
But we doubt if life in Tortilla Flat is as insouciant and pleasant and amusing as Mr. The book is as consistently amusing, we think, as February Hill. He has a gift for drollery and for turning Spanish talk and phrases into a gently mocking English. Steinbeck tells a number of first-rate stories in his history of Danny’s house. Steinbeck’s humorous and whimsical tale they appear as a gentle race of sun-loving, heavy wine-drinking, anti-social loafers and hoodlums who work only when necessity demands and generally live by a succession of devious stratagems more or less outside the law. Here live the paisanos, a mixed race of Spanish, Indian Mexican, and assorted Caucasian bloods. “Tortilla Flat is the tumbledown Section of the town of Monterey in California. Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning. The most famous of these, The Grapes of Wrath, earned its author the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, was made into a celebrated film starring Henry Fonda, and featured heavily in his 1962 Nobel Prize citation.īelow, we take a look back at the very first reviews of what we consider to be Steinbeck’s five most iconic works-from the simple-but-devastating novella Of Mice and Men, to the epic, multigenerational melodrama East of Eden. His books tended to focus on the downtrodden-migrant agricultural laborers and Dust Bowl drifters struggling to stay afloat during the depression.
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