A Penguin Classic Written at a time of profound anxiety caused by the illness of his mother, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck draws on his memories of childhood in these stories about a boy who embodies both the rebellious spirit and the contradictory desire for acceptance of early adolescence.
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This edition contains an introduction by John Seelye.
The Red Pony was central not only to Steinbeck\'s emergence as a major American novelist but to the shaping of a distinctly mid twentieth-century genre, opening up a new range of possibilities about the fictional presence of a child\'s world.
Jody\'s encounters with birth and death express a common theme in Steinbeck\'s fiction: They are parts of the ongoing process of life, resolving nothing.
As John Seelye writes in his introduction, reversing common interpretations, The Red Pony is imbued with a sense of loss.
Unlike most coming-of-age stories, the cycle does not end with a hero matured by circumstances.
A Penguin Classic Written at a time of profound anxiety caused by the illness of his mother, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck draws on his memories of childhood in these stories about a boy who embodies both the rebellious spirit and the contradictory desire for acceptance of early adolescence
