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Title: John Steinbeck: The Good Companion by Carlton A. Sheffield, Terry White, Richard Blum ISBN: 0-88739-350-0 Publisher: Creative Arts Book Co Pub. Date: January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A delightful memoir
Comment: This is a delightful book--an intelligent and engaging memoir of a long friendship between one of America's most popular writers and a self-effacing Californian who spent a part of his life as an academic, another part as a small-town newspaper editor, yet another part as a state bureaucrat, but who in the end was remembered more for his relationship to the author of The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, and East of Eden. When Steinbeck died in 1968, Sheffield confessed that the writer was "the best friend I ever had." If Sheffield was not the best friend Steinbeck ever had, he was an important influence on him--first as a classmate and roommate at Stanford, later as best man at Steinbeck's marriage to his first wife, and for years after as a drinking companion and literary sounding board. As Steinbeck climbed the ladder of literary immortality, Sheffield saved his letters, collected reviews of his work, and assembled important facts of his life. The result is this book--not a biography, by any means, but a rich and engrossing recollection of an immensely gifted writer at work and play, in good times and bad. It is unfortunate that the book is so badly edited (the published text is rife with typos, some almost unreadable sentences, and even some misnumbered endnotes). But none of this is Dook Sheffield's fault (he died in 1989), and, in the end, his love and respect for Steinbeck conquers all these petty obstacles.
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Title: John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts: The Shaping of a Novelist by Richard Astro ISBN: 0972197400 Publisher: Western Flyer Publishing Pub. Date: 09 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Renaissance Man of Cannery Row: The Life and Letters of Edward F. Ricketts by Edward Flanders Ricketts, Katharine A. Rodger ISBN: 0817311726 Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: The Amateur Marriage: A Novel by Anne Tyler ISBN: 1400042070 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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