The Winter of Our Discontent

Steinbeck, John

Published by The Viking Press, 1961

About this Item

First trade edition. Jacket edges rubbed, jacket foxed. Top page ridge lightly soiled. 1961 Hard Cover. 311 pp. "In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had ?resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American.? Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of the novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With the decline in their status, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards. Seller Inventory # 2319742

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Winter of Our Discontent

Publisher: The Viking Press

Publication Date: 1961

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Edition: First Trade Edition.