In Dubious Battle
by John Steinbeck
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0553101676
- ISBN 13
- 9780553101676
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About This Item
At once a relentlessly fast-paced, admirably observed novel of social unrest and the story of a young man's struggle for identity, In Dubious Battle is set in the California apple country, where a strike by migrant workers against rapacious landowners spirals out of control, as a principled defiance metamorphosesinto blind fanaticism. Caught in the upheaval is Jim Nolan, a once aimless man who find himself in the course of the strike, briefly becomes its leader, and is ultimately crushed in its service.
Synopsis
In Dubious Battle is a novel by John Steinbeck, written in 1936. The central figure of the story is an activist for "the Party" (the American Communist Party, although it is never specifically named in the novel) who is organizing a major strike by the workers, seeking thus to attract followers to his cause. In Steinbeck's obituary, the New York Times said that "Although the writer's sympathies were clearly with the strikers...
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- Bookseller
- The Vespiary Book Restoration & Bindery (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SQ7991482
- Title
- In Dubious Battle
- Author
- John Steinbeck
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0553101676
- ISBN 13
- 9780553101676
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- apples, farming, migrant workers, labor, strikes
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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