The Pearl (1945)

The father is trying his best to make sure that his child is safe, that his wife is safe, and in doing so, he just unearths the most evil parts of him. Really good. Not my favorite by any means, but really good.

These are some childhood favorites for me, The Pearl of Mice and Men, of course, The Red Pony, and some lesser-known things like The Moon Is Down, The Red Pony is also a little bit lesser-known, and of course Tortilla Flat, and Cannery Row, a really phenomenal collection from Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions, endlessly rereadable, and Steinbeck is obviously one of the true masters of 20th century prose, seriously otherworldly in his ability to penetrate into the heart of the matter, which is a phrase from a writer that we'll be seeing further down this list.

I have read a couple of other John Steinbeck books, , The Pearl and of My Sen. Neither of which I enjoyed at all.

This book is poignant and thoughtprovoking and profound and really short and it just packs such a punch and I love books that have a moral element to it that have more of a fable feel and I can't recommend this enough.

but this book The Pearl just a I mean obviously a very well-written book it's Steinbeck you know the writing is going to be good but really does a great job of highlighting the how expensive it is to be poor

The John Steinbeck that I've read previously hasn't been like the most exciting, most wonderful literature of my life. I've read The Pearl and I've read Once There Was a War and obviously East of Eden is one of his more well-known big books.

I picture the Locale of the Pearl also done so well