East of Eden
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (636 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0055WXTPQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 414 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Cat in The Hat: but the cat's meow! jl From the outset, the narrator, the I, seems to be the author, and the family his own. Iindeed much is autobiographical. The book opens with a beautiful description of Steinbeck's beloved Salinas Valley. Throughout the narrative he self adoringly interrupts, as if to say like The . Really Excellent Larissa One of my new favorite books, possibly my absolute favorite. Like a lot of people, I first read Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" in high school and fell in love with his writing. But because this is his magnum opus and is, therefore, pretty long, I put off reading it. Now that I hav. Chiek said Steinbeck's stunning Magnum Opus. Incredible epic built on the Biblical Cain and Abel story. Spanning three generations, the Trask family gave us the enthralling sibling rivalries of not just one pair of siblings of Charles and Adam, but also Adam's offsprings, Caleb and Aron. It was no coincidence that the three
This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.