East of Eden
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Book
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ISBN 10
0142004235
ISBN 13
9780142004234
Category
Fiction
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Publication Year
2014
Publisher
Penguin Books, United Kingdom
Pages
602
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"When the book club ended a year ago, I said I would bring it back when I found the book that was moving
and this is a great one. I read it for myself for the first time and then I had some friends read it. And we think it might be the best novel we've ever read!" Oprah Winfrey In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two familiesthe Trasks and the Hamiltonswhose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of Eden is a work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
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