"'''''"Grapes" is one of my all-time "best" American novels, up there with
Moby-Dick, Gatsby, Huckleberry Finn, the Sound and the Fury, Catch-22,
The Sun Also Rises, and a handful of others. ''"""''"'


krause,,,

are you off your meds again??? Grapes in your all time best??? or one of
them??? no wonder you come from a land of make belief,,,










"HarryKrause" wrote in message
...
On this day in 1939, one of the most important books of the 20th Century
was published: John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.

A series of shorter novels published in the mid-30s -- Tortilla Flat, In
Dubious Battle, Of Mice and Men, The Red Pony -- had brought Steinbeck
increasing success and fame, but he longed to do a longer novel reflecting
"a very grave attempt to do a first-rate piece of work." With a lifelong
empathy for the working poor, and months spent researching the "fruit
tramps" and "Okies" who lived in the West Coast migrant camps, Steinbeck's
subject and theme were never in question.

Interestingly, Grapes of Wrath is a work of art the current POTUS
denigrated while he was sliding his way to an MBA. Bush claimed the book
did not depict any sort of reality, and had nothing to say to those living
in the modern era. Thus, the genesis of Bush's "compassionate
conservatism."

"Grapes" is one of my all-time "best" American novels, up there with
Moby-Dick, Gatsby, Huckleberry Finn, the Sound and the Fury, Catch-22, The
Sun Also Rises, and a handful of others. I have a feeling Bush has never
read any of these books, cover-to-cover, but might have invested in the
Cliffs Notes.