East of Eden

English

ISBN: 0142004235

EAN: 9780142004234

Category: Fiction / Literary

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 06/18/2003

Age Range: 18-UP

Synopsis: When the book club ended a year ago, I said I would bring it back when I found the book that was moving...and this is a great one. I read it for myself for the first time and then I had some friends read it. And we think it might be the best novel weve ever read! - Oprah Winfrey In his journal, John Steinbeck called East of Edenthe first book, and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of Californias Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families-the Trasks and the Hamiltons-whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Adam Trask came to California from the East to farm and raise his family on the new, rich land. But the birth of his twins, Cal and Aron, brings his wife to the brink of madness, and Adam is left alone to raise his boys to manhood. One boy thrives, nurtured by the love of all those around him: the other grows up in loneliness, enveloped by a mysterious darkness. First published in 1952, East of Edenis the work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of loves absence. A masterpiece of Steinbecks later years, East of Edenis a powerful and vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis.

East of Eden

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 1.58 inches

Width: 5.7 inches

Length: 8.44 inches

Weight: 25.82 oz

Pages: 608