The Harvest Gypsies
On the Road to "the Grapes of Wrath"
by John Steinbeck; Charles Wollenberg
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Publisher Heyday Books |
Date 2002 |
Price $4.94 |
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Publisher Wildside Pr |
Date 1991 |
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Publisher Heyday Books |
Date 1996 |
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Publisher Notes
Gathered in this volume are seven newspaper articles on migrant farm workers that John Steinbeck wrote in 1936. With the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter and the emotional power of a novelist in his prime, Steinbeck toured the squatters' camps and Hoovervilles of California. The Harvest Gypsies gives us an eyewitness account of the horrendous Dust Bowl migration, a major event in California history, and provides the factual foundation for Steinbeck's masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath. Illustrated with 20 black-and-white photographs, many by Dorothea Lange. "Steinbeck's observations ... have not lost their potency. And as Wollenberg points out, the plight of the newly destitute and newly homeless has particular relevance today. Steinbeck's journalism shares the enduring quality of his famous novel". -- Publishers Weekly
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