The Winter of Our Discontent
by John Steinbeck
Taste attributes: dramafresh & originalunsavouryheavyrealisticlinearenclosedemotive & stirringsocial commentaryself destruction/implosiontroubled leads
Boxlist takeExpect a heavy, realistic novel, emotive rather than low-key. Best if you like real life over fantasy.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: dark · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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4.0 / 5
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About This Book
Steinbeck's last great novel focuses on the theme of success and what motivates men towards it. Reflecting back on his New England family's past fortune, and his father's loss of the family wealth, the hero, Ethan Allen Hawley, characterises successin every era and in all its forms as robbery, murder, even a kind of combat, operating under 'the laws of controlled savagery.'
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- Author
- John Steinbeck
- Published
- 1961
- Pages
- 304
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- Open Library
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