John Steinbeck
GRAPES OF WRATH Easton Press
Leather Bound
(The Easton Press Aug. 16, 1968)
The “Okies,” some 300,000 farmers and their families whose livelihoods were destroyed when droughts turned the lower Mid-west into “the Dust Bowl” and who had migrated to California, were exploited by the state’s huge agricultural industry. There were articles in the newspaper about California’s farm labor strife. Steinbeck had to write this book about the struggling poor.
- Weight
- 40.0 oz.
- Dimensions
- 9.4 x 7.0
in.