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The Grapes of Wrath
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February 28, 2014
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Michael Finocchiaro

Steinbeck's classic blew me away again with the power of its vision, the depth of its character, and the realism of its dialogs. I also rewatched the movie and found it to be relatively faithful to the book. A few things were dropped (the Wilsons, Noah's leaving, the pathos-laden ending with Rosasharon in the farmhouse) and a few things were swapped around (the government camp and the peach camp), but Henry Fonda did a perfect performance as the interesting Tom Joad whose character arc goes from
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Mackenzie
Aug 21, 2013 marked it as to-read
Carolyn
May 19, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition