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Title: The Pastures of Heaven (Twentieth-Century Classics) by John Steinbeck, James Nagel ISBN: 0-14-018748-0 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.36 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Quick and Wonderful Read
Comment: After reading the Grapes of Wrath recently, I became an instant fan of John Steinbeck. So much that while at the used bookstore last week I bought several more of his novels. It would be strange to call his writing a breath of fresh air since he's hardly current but that's the best way that I can describe it. After reading his work you feel like you truly know his fictional characters. You also feel like you've been exploring a wonderful new region. And if you've actually been to the region he's writing about, the memories and thoughts that are rekindled are so amazingly vivid. Could anything be better. Its like a breath of fresh air! This book was a great collection of short stories that focused certain events in the lives of the residents of the Pastures of Heaven. Each short story focused on only one resident or family but main characters from each of the other short stories would show up in supporting roles. It was an interesting structure that I'd never seen before and I loved it. As usual Steinbeck focused on painting a picture of a region and he did a great job of it here. I've actually been to the Pastures of Heaven at Salinas and I'm sure that I've stood in the very same spot in the hills between Carmel and Salinas where John Steinbeck described the awesome view of the valley. I remember looking over the valley with the same awe when I was there. This isn't a gripping and moving tale like Grapes or Wrath. It's much lighter. But its such a fine piece of writing that I'd recommend it to anyone.
Rating: 5
Summary: Unforgettable.
Comment: My mother, not a reader herself but certain that anything sold by the Baptists & titled "The Pastures of Heaven" had to be OK, bought this book from a clearance table at the Baptist Book Store in Dallas TX as a Christmas present for (then) 8-year-old me.
I devoured it at 8 and--except for "Travels With Charley"--still love it more than anything else Steinbeck wrote. The crystal-clear (to a grownup) allusions to prostitution & incest went right over my innocent head, but the utterly believable characters, their names, their haunting stories, the image of how that beautiful green valley must have looked to the pioneers after their ordeal of mountains & desert, have stayed with me for almost 60 years.
I'm now going to order a copy to replace the barely-hanging-together one still inscribed "From Mom & Dad, Christmas 1944". In fact I'm going to order one for all my 5 children's family libraries.
Rating: 4
Summary: the pastures of california
Comment: steinbeck captures the essence of the areas of california that he so much likes to descibe--and all the characters often somewhat described in other novels are here as well
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Title: To a God Unknown (Twentieth Century Classics Series) by John Steinbeck, Robert Demott ISBN: 0140187510 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: August, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Long Valley (Twentieth Century Classics Series) by John Steinbeck, John H. Timmerman ISBN: 0140187456 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: August, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Winter of Our Discontent (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by John Steinbeck ISBN: 0140187537 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Sweet Thursday (Twentieth-Century Classics) by John Steinbeck ISBN: 0140187502 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck ISBN: 0140187529 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: August, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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