The Winter Of Our Discontent
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In a quiet Long Island town, Ethan Allen Hawley — a once-proud man from an old New England family, now reduced to clerking in a grocery store he used to own — stands at a crossroads between integrity and ambition that will define everything he thought he believed. The Winter of Our Discontent is Steinbeck's razor-sharp moral fable of mid-20th-century America, chronicling Ethan's gradual, agonising surrender to the corruption and moral compromise that surrounds him, as the pressure of a consumer-driven society and the quiet desperation of his family push him toward decisions that cannot be undone. Steinbeck's final novel is a searing indictment of the American Dream's darker underbelly, arguing that the pursuit of wealth and respectability carries a corrosive cost to the human soul. Written with deceptive simplicity and laced with bitter irony — its very title drawn from Shakespeare's Richard III — the novel presents a portrait of a nation trading its moral inheritance for material comfort. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature the same year of its publication, Steinbeck proves himself as penetrating an observer of American conscience as ever; the question that haunts every page is whether Ethan — and by extension, America itself — can find its way back from the brink.
Author: John Steinbeck
Format: Hardback
Published: 1961, Heinemann
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In a quiet Long Island town, Ethan Allen Hawley — a once-proud man from an old New England family, now reduced to clerking in a grocery store he used to own — stands at a crossroads between integrity and ambition that will define everything he thought he believed. The Winter of Our Discontent is Steinbeck's razor-sharp moral fable of mid-20th-century America, chronicling Ethan's gradual, agonising surrender to the corruption and moral compromise that surrounds him, as the pressure of a consumer-driven society and the quiet desperation of his family push him toward decisions that cannot be undone. Steinbeck's final novel is a searing indictment of the American Dream's darker underbelly, arguing that the pursuit of wealth and respectability carries a corrosive cost to the human soul. Written with deceptive simplicity and laced with bitter irony — its very title drawn from Shakespeare's Richard III — the novel presents a portrait of a nation trading its moral inheritance for material comfort. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature the same year of its publication, Steinbeck proves himself as penetrating an observer of American conscience as ever; the question that haunts every page is whether Ethan — and by extension, America itself — can find its way back from the brink.