From a swashbuckling pirate fantasy to a meditation on American moralityatwoclassic Steinbeck novels make their black spine debuts IN AWARDING JohnSteinbeck the... » 

From a swashbuckling pirate fantasy to a meditation on American moralityatwoclassic Steinbeck novels make their black spine debuts IN AWARDING JohnSteinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature the Nobel committee stated thatwith The Winter of Our Discontent he had aresumed his position as anindependent expounder of the truth with an unbiased instinct for what isgenuinely American.a Ethan Allen Hawley the protagonist of the novel works asa clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With the decline intheir status his wife is restless and his teenage children are hungry for thetantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day in a moment ofmoral crisis Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulousstandards. «