Items related to John Steinbeck: A Biography
This reassessment of John Steinbeck, Nobel Prize-winner, draws on the remniscences of his wife and friends, and on Steinbeck's own huge legacy of letters, diaries and manuscripts, to create a portrait of a writer who established himself through sheer hard work, and whose greatest works captured the desperation and indignation experienced by ordinary Americans during the Great Depression.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Product Description:
614 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.
About the Author:
Jay Parini, an American poet and novelist, is currently the Fowler Hamilton Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford. He is the author iof numerous books, including Athracite Country, Town Life, The Last Station and Bay of Arrows. Reviewing The Last Station in TLS, John Bayley called this novel of Leo Tolstoy"s last year 'a subtle master[iece'. Parini's earlier biographical study of poet Theodore Roethke was shortlisted for a Pulitzer Prize in 1979.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherWilliam Heinemann Ltd
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0434574929
- ISBN 13 9780434574926
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages614
- Rating
Other Popular Editions of the Same Title
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
John Steinbeck: A Biography
Published by
Trafalgar Square
(1994)
ISBN 10: 0434574929
ISBN 13: 9780434574926
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # Abebooks57463
Buy New
£ 47.76
Convert currency
Stock Image
John Steinbeck: A Biography
Published by
Trafalgar Square
(1994)
ISBN 10: 0434574929
ISBN 13: 9780434574926
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # VA-L409-7BB8
Buy New
£ 60.71
Convert currency
Stock Image
JOHN STEINBECK: A BIOGRAPHY
Published by
Trafalgar Square
(1994)
ISBN 10: 0434574929
ISBN 13: 9780434574926
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2.2. Seller Inventory # Q-0434574929
Buy New
£ 62.12
Convert currency
Stock Image
John Steinbeck a Biography Parini, Jay
Published by
Trafalgar Square
(1994)
ISBN 10: 0434574929
ISBN 13: 9780434574926
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # DRH1---0161
Buy New
£ 56.67
Convert currency
Stock Image
John Steinbeck a Biography Parini, Jay
Published by
Trafalgar Square
(1994)
ISBN 10: 0434574929
ISBN 13: 9780434574926
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # QCC--0032
Buy New
£ 56.67
Convert currency
Stock Image
John Steinbeck a Biography Parini, Jay
Published by
Trafalgar Square
(1994)
ISBN 10: 0434574929
ISBN 13: 9780434574926
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # IT-178
Buy New
£ 60.70
Convert currency