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Carol and John Steinbeck : Portrait of a Marriage

By Susan Shillinglaw

Book information

Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780874179316, 9780874179309
LCC
PS3537
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (5268161 bytes)
Series
Western Literature and Fiction Ser.
Pages
348\0
Time added
2023-08-15 05:03:20
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Description

Carol Henning Steinbeck, writer John Steinbeck's first wife, was his creative anchor, the inspiration for his great work of the 1930s, culminating in The Grapes of Wrath. Meeting at Lake Tahoe in 1928, their attachment was immediate, their personalities meshing in creative synergy. Carol was unconventional, artistic, and compelling. In the formative years of Steinbeck's career, living in San Francisco, Pacific Grove, Los Gatos, and Monterey, their Modernist circle included Ed Ricketts, Joseph Campbell, and Lincoln Steffens. In many ways Carol's story is all too familiar: a creative and intelligent woman subsumes her own life and work into that of her husband. Together, they brought forth one of the enduring novels of the 20th century.

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