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The final novel of one of America's most loved writers-a story of degeneration, corruption, and spiritual turmoil In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter in our Discontent, he had "resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct for what's genuinely American." Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck's last novel, works as a clerk in a supermarket that his family once owned. With Ethan no longer a member of Long Island's aristocratic category, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing materials conveniences he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral turmoil, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous benchmarks. Occur Steinbeck's modern 1960 America, the novel explores the tenuous brand between private and open public honesty, now rates alongside his most acclaimed works of penetrating perception in to the American condition.
