Tortilla Flat
by John Steinbeck
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0140042407
- ISBN 13
- 9780140042405
- Seller
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Missoula, Montana, United States
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About This Item
Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a "Camelot" on a shabby hillside above Monterey on the California coast and peopled it with a colorful band of knights. As Steinbeck chronicles their thoughts and emotions, temptations and lusts, he spins a tale as compelling, and ultimately as touched by sorrow, as the famous legends of the Round Table.
Synopsis
Tortilla Flat (1935) is an early Steinbeck novel set in Monterey, California. The book portrays with great sympathy and humour a group of paisanos (fellows/countrymen), denouncing society by enjoying life and wine in the idyllic days after the end of the Great War and preceding U.S. prohibition. Tortilla Flat was made into a film in 1942. Steinbeck would later return to the some of the panhandling locals of Monterey (though not the Spanish paisanos of the Flat) in his novel Cannery Row (1945).
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Vespiary Book Restoration & Bindery (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SQ3517453
- Title
- Tortilla Flat
- Author
- John Steinbeck
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140042407
- ISBN 13
- 9780140042405
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, Ny
- Date Published
- 1977-04-28
- Keywords
- monterey, california
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;