John Steinbeck

Vredens druvor är en roman från 1939 av John Steinbeck. Romanen vann Pulitzerpriset för skönlitteratur 1940. Samma år gjordes även en filmversion, regisserad av John Ford, med Henry Fonda i en av huvudrollerna.

To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years. With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates …

Ancient pagan beliefs, the great Greek epics, and the Bible all inform this extraordinary novel by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, which occupied him for more than five difficult years. While fulfilling his dead father’s dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a …