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This moving parable of wealth and the evil it can bring is based on a Mexican folktale. The simple life of Kino, a pearl fisher, changes for ever when he finds a great pearl, a pearl as large as a seagull's egg. The story is of the finding of the pearl, the dreams it represents and its loss. Kino is blind to the greed, fear and even violence the pearl arouses in his neighbours - and in himself - and the promise of great wealth and a better life for Kino and his family brings nothing but misfortune and enemies.
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"[The Pearl] has the distinction and sincerity that are evident in everything he writes."--The New Yorker
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"Form is the most important thing about him. It is at its best in this work." --Commonweal
"[Steinbeck has] long trained his prose style for such a task as this: that supple unstrained, muscular power, responsive to the slightest pull of the reins."--Chicago Sunday Times
[The Pearl] has the distinction and sincerity that are evident in everything he writes. The New Yorker
Form is the most important thing about him. It is at its best in this work. Commonweal
[The Pearl] has the distinction and sincerity that are evident in everything he writes. The New Yorker
Form is the most important thing about him. It is at its best in this work. Commonweal
"[The Pearl] has the distinction and sincerity that are evident in everything he writes."--The New Yorker
"Form is the most important thing about him. It is at its best in this work." --Commonweal
"[Steinbeck has] long trained his prose style for such a task as this: that supple unstrained, muscular power, responsive to the slightest pull of the reins."--Chicago Sunday Times
John Steinbeck (1902 - 1978) grew up in California and used the valley and coast as the setting for some of his greatest fiction. He studied at Stanford University and then worked as a labourer and journalist in New York as he worked on the first ofhis many fine novels. THE GRAPES OF WRATH, often considered his finest book, was published in 1939. John Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.
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- PublisherPuffin
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0141312556
- ISBN 13 9780141312552
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages128
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