East of Eden, John Steinbeck literary fiction Public conversations are increasingly propelled

Public conversations are increasingly propelled by numbers

for when a man is out for vengeance

and shifting sexual roles

and her trouble really starts

Bernd and Hilla Becher

East of Eden, John Steinbeck literary fiction Public conversations are increasingly propelledA masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of Americas most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two familiesthe Trasks and the