The second volume in The Library of America\'s authoritative edition of John Steinbeck features his acknowledged masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath .
The novel wo.
Tracing the journey of the Joad family from the dust bowl of Oklahoma to the migrant camps of California, Steinbeck creates an American epic, spacious, impassioned, and pulsating with the rhythms of living speech.
Written in an incredibly compressed five-month period, the novel had an electrifying impact upon publication in 1939.
The second volume in The Library of America\'s authoritative edition of John Steinbeck features his acknowledged masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath