Format:
Book
Title:
East of Eden / John Steinbeck.
Author:
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968
Call Number:
FIC STEINBEC J
Publisher, Date:
New York : Penguin, 1952.
Description:
602 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks' and the Hamilton's--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The story of two brothers, Aron is a clean-cut model student, engaged to be married, the pride of his hardworking father. Cal is a rebellious loner, sternly rejected by his father.
Subjects:
Children of prostitutes -- Fiction.
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
Sibling rivalry -- Fiction.
Brothers -- Fiction.
Salinas River Valley (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Oprah's Book Club selection.
Genre:
Domestic fiction.
ISBN:
9780140186390 (trade)
0142000655 (pbk., centennial ed.)
0142004235 (pbk.)