The Winter Of Our Discontent
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing , price clipped
Markings: Previous owner
A masterwork of American literary fiction, The Winter of Our Discontent chronicles the moral unraveling of Ethan Allen Hawley, a once-proud New England man now reduced to clerking in a grocery store his family once owned. Set against the backdrop of a small Long Island town in the early 1960s, the novel dissects the corrosive allure of wealth and status as Ethan, pressured by his wife and inspired by the corrupt success of those around him, begins to compromise the very integrity that defines him. Steinbeck presents a sharp, unsentimental critique of postwar American materialism, arguing that the nation's obsession with prosperity has hollowed out its moral core. The tone is at once elegiac and biting, blending Ethan's wry, introspective voice with a deep sorrow for a society that rewards cunning over conscience. Widely regarded as Steinbeck's final novel, it stands as a profound meditation on the cost of the American Dream and the fragile line between principle and betrayal.
Author: John Steinbeck
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing , price clipped
Markings: Previous owner
A masterwork of American literary fiction, The Winter of Our Discontent chronicles the moral unraveling of Ethan Allen Hawley, a once-proud New England man now reduced to clerking in a grocery store his family once owned. Set against the backdrop of a small Long Island town in the early 1960s, the novel dissects the corrosive allure of wealth and status as Ethan, pressured by his wife and inspired by the corrupt success of those around him, begins to compromise the very integrity that defines him. Steinbeck presents a sharp, unsentimental critique of postwar American materialism, arguing that the nation's obsession with prosperity has hollowed out its moral core. The tone is at once elegiac and biting, blending Ethan's wry, introspective voice with a deep sorrow for a society that rewards cunning over conscience. Widely regarded as Steinbeck's final novel, it stands as a profound meditation on the cost of the American Dream and the fragile line between principle and betrayal.