The Portable Steinbeck [REVISED EDITION HARDCOVER] 1971 • The Viking Portable Library

The Portable Steinbeck by John Steinbeck REVISED + ENLARGED EDITION HARDCOVER [1971] THE VIKING PRESS First Revised Printing / 1971 / The Viking Portable Library. Small, fat, vintage hardcover w/ dust jacket in very good condition.  Dime for scale.  Dust jacket has light shelf wear and a few spots of discoloration but is otherwise excellent.  Book itself reads good as new.  Some bumping to top of spine.   He wrote about poor people struggling to survive and about dispossessed people grappling for a piece of land they could call their own. He wrote about inarticulate men groping to express truths "locked in wordlessness." He wrote about America—the land and the people—as though it were one living organism, and he did so more eloquently than anyone since Walt Whitman. In an extraordinarily prolific career that lasted from 1929 to the 1960s, John Steinbeck created stories and characters that, in the words of Pascal Covici, Jr., this volume's editor, combine "the gusto of Homer...alon