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A very dull book. - Rated
Okay, it's Steinbeck and everyone knows that he was an outstanding writer, but does that mean everything he wrote was outstanding? Does a piece of writing have to be "important" because its author was?
Paul Mcartney is an outstanding writer but is every song a classic?
This book is depressing and boring, though it does have two redeeming features, and they are: the reason it was written - an experiment with the form play-novelette, and it is short. Steinbeck explains about the first in the Author's note and the second requires no explanation.
Some of you Steinbeck Disciples will think me a heathen - but no! I understand this book perfectly. It is no more than an artist's sketch, a doodle. In truth: A great writer trying his hand at a different form. Some painters can pick up water colours instead of their usual oils, can they not? A snooker champion can play pool, I think.
Please do not think that this book must contain a hidden and deep meaning because Steinbeck wrote it. Doing that pushes you toward the quick-sand of intellectual snobbery, and once in you may never get out. By all means see the wood for the trees, but when there is no wood, try not to plant one.
One of his best - Rated
Like many of his books this is only short. It is the story of 4 people, a husband and wife, a close freind of the husband and an outsider. The story starts with the wife, realising that her husband is infertile but that he desperately wants a child. Because of this the wife goes and gets pregnant by the 'outsider'. The story takes place over 3 scenes. These scenes change to a different location and change the characters history each time. This makes it slightly confusing but it is still well worth reading.
