The grapes of Wrath – Steinbeck

‘I’ve done my damndest to rip a reader’s nerves to rags, I don’t want him satisfied.’

Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath
is Steinbeck’s Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced
to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised
land of California. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires
and powerlessness, yet out of their struggle Steinbeck created a drama
that is both intensely human and majestic in its scale and moral
vision.