Loved itit's a picture perfect ending it's a picture perfect book and it's only 40 whatever on this list my goodness I've read some great books in my lifetime The Grapes of Wrath being one of the best
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The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive Steinbeck’s classic novel of the Great Depression is as vivid now as ever. The story focuses on a family of Oklahoma sharecroppers, farmers who work another man’s land for a share of the crops. Driven from their home by drought and poverty they take to the road in a battered old truck and make their way to California to look for work. When they arrive they find hundreds of others like them being forced to work for breadline wages. they begin working as fruit pickers, strike-breakers replacing the people who have been trying to establish a union but their consciences force them to leave.
- ISBN:
- 9780241980347
- Length:
- 544 pages
Genres: historical fiction, classics
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Loved itthis is a book that will definitely break your heart it's definitely not for the faint-hearted the ending is one of the best fictional endings I've ever read I was surprised I was shocked but I also felt like that ending played really well with the rest of the story
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