John Steinbeck
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| Original Title: | In Dubious Battle |
| ISBN: | 0143039636 (ISBN13: 9780143039631) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Jim Nolan |
| Setting: | California(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | California Book Award for General Literature (Silver) (1936) |
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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 metamorphoses into 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.Identify Out Of Books In Dubious Battle
| Title | : | In Dubious Battle |
| Author | : | John Steinbeck |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Penguin Classic |
| Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
| Published | : | May 30th 2006 by Penguin Classics (first published 1936) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Literature. Historical. Historical Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.89 From 11105 Users | 713 ReviewsCommentary Out Of Books In Dubious Battle
This is my first review on Goodreads. Back in PBT days (circa 2004), I used to write little snippet reviews for every book I read but since I started using GR last summer, I've been so impressed by the high caliber of Quinten's reviews that I've been too intimidated to write my own. And lazy. But I'm going to start anyway.In Dubious Battle completes my run of all of the Steinbeck books at the Central Library, and certainly ends it on a high note. When I first added this book as "to-read," I wasI've decided to up my rating for this book, from four stars to five. Great story, and I'm still thinking about it more than a year after I first read it.
In Dubious Battle, John SteinbeckIn Dubious Battle is a novel by John Steinbeck, written in 1936. The central figure of the story is an activist attempting to organize abused laborers in order to gain fair wages and working conditions. In Dubious Battle deals with a fruit-workers' strike in a California valley and the attempts of labor unions to organize, lead, and provide for the striking pickers. Jim Nolan meets Harry Nilson who initiates Jim's application process to become the newest member
This is the first Steinbeck I've read. I managed to avoid reading most American and British classic lit during high school and college. While this isn't Steinbeck's best known work, it should rank among his best. He tells the story of a labor dispute in an agricultural community in California. This novel was written in the 1930's and the Great Depression had it's hold over the US until the late 1930's and in some places into the 1940's. Agricultural workers at the time were white men who lived
Do mobs find people or do people find mobs? Once the mob becomes the collective will of the people how far will it take the ends to justify the means? And when that 'means' is accomplished how will it 'end' for all who have participated? This book examines these questions - read at the same time as Eric Hoffer's The True Believer for an excellent "book pairing."
Read this one during bouts of sleep deprivation and red wine drowsiness so I'll have to cross-reference some online summaries.I got the gist and it was beautiful and had so many Steinbeck tropes I love. Not ideal for a readathon though.
Writing novels about the poor and dispossessed in 1930s California and in the process attracting the wrath of farmers organisations and the attention of the FBI gave John Steinbeck a reputation which has persisted to this day. Many people assume that he was a communist, or at the very least a socialist. This novel, along with The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men is a work which cemented Steinbecks reputation in that regard. However, the characterization of Steinbecks politics as socialist or
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