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Kent Winward
May 15, 2013 rated it it was amazing
Stienbeck does Cormac McCarthy before Cormac McCarthy -- quasi-mythical-biblical characters playing out a dark metaphor on existence in harsh Western Country. Superb.
Suvi
I very like much the descriptions of nature Steinbeck has produced but the characters are still very 2-dimensional. Maybe it's just me but I want to see the characters in my mind and unfortunately in this one the images were even more shattered than in Grapes of Wrath. ...more
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