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This reassessment of John Steinbeck, Nobel Prize-winner, draws on the remniscences of his wife and friends, and on Steinbeck's own huge legacy of letters, diaries and manuscripts, to create a portrait of a writer who established himself through sheer hard work, and whose greatest works captured the desperation and indignation experienced by ordinary Americans during the Great Depression.
- Sales Rank: #1556899 in Books
- Published on: 1996-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 6.00" w x 1.75" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 535 pages
From Publishers Weekly
This biography of the popular American novelist (1902-1968) is absorbing and generous. Parini, a professor of English literature and creative writing at Middlebury College, poet and novelist (Bay of Arrows), draws on interviews with dozens of people, including playwright Terrence McNally (tutor to Steinbeck's sons), actor Burgess Meredith and Steinbeck's third wife, Elaine, as well as published and unpublished letters, diaries and manuscripts. He documents the writer's slow discovery of a voice and method-terse, socially conscious and rooted in both the closely observed landscape and resonant biblical and mythological archetypes-that resulted in such powerful novels as The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. Steinbeck's popularity and his Pulitzer and controversial Nobel prizes attracted unflattering reassessments of his work, exacerbating his perpetual uncertainties about its value. Parini's deft, thoughtful appraisal of Steinbeck's oeuvre supplements a sympathetic but unsentimental view of a sometimes difficult man. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Parini (Bay of Arrows, LJ 8/83; English, Middlebury Coll.) writes an engaging biography of the quintessential California writer. Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in 1962 for his exceptional and enduring book, The Grapes of Wrath (1940), along with his other numerous novels and short stories. His relatively uncomplicated life story is told plainly here, with some analysis of his influences and psychology. Steinbeck's inner life was characterized by co-existent self-belief and self-doubt: "He both wanted and feared recognition and approbation; he sought them, and when they appeared, he did his best to resist them." Parini based his research of this underrated author on interviews, as well as letters, diaries, and manuscripts, some unpublished. While biographer Jackson Benson's extensive The True Adventures of John Steinbeck (LJ 8/83) is more scholarly, this book is highly recommended for libraries not owning the British edition (Heinemann, 1994).
--Janice Braun, Hoover Institution Lib., Stanford, Cal.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Parini, himself a novelist as well as a literary scholar, is a wholehearted admirer of Steinbeck, whom he describes as a "writer to the bone." Not only did Steinbeck devote himself to his work with passion and discipline, but he also suffered from the deep anxiety and feelings of unworthiness that plague so many creative people. Sadly, his fears were all too often confirmed by an influential group of critics who savaged every book he published after the phenomenal success of The Grapes of Wrath in 1939. This critical scorn was diametrically opposed to Steinbeck's worldwide popularity, but Parini does suggest that Steinbeck would have benefited from a firmer editorial hand. At any rate, Steinbeck's struggles weren't confined to literature; he experienced plenty of conflict and pain on the familial and marital fronts as well. As Parini chronicles Steinbeck's youth, key friendships, marriages, travels, and the creation of each book, play, and film (Steinbeck loved writing scripts and making movies), he traces the evolution of Steinbeck's somewhat romantic and sentimental but unquestionably significant philosophy. In sum, Parini's finely wrought portrait of Steinbeck presents a quixotic, didactic, yet heroic figure fired with "moral outrage" and centered by a profound respect for nature and belief in the importance of stories. Donna Seaman
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Excellent!!
By John Foley
Excellent!!! Informative and does not read like a textbook. This man is a gifted writer. I highly recommend this book for anyone with an interest in John Steinbeck.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Great author - poor biography
By B. Bates
I am a big John Steinbeck fan. I was hoping for a biography to help me understand the man a little more. What I got was a critique of his writings. The author took great enjoyment in showing how he interpreted the Steinbeck writings. Hey, we have read the books and can form our own opinions! The biography was so long-winded that I found myself skipping entire sections. So, I was disappointed that the book was not a true biography of the man. The biography is in there, you just have to muddle through the author's side tracks to see it. I don't know of another biography to recommend since this is the first I tried, spurred on by the glowing reviews. Maybe I missed something and it is a great biography, but not for me personally.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Discovering John Steinbeck
By Loren D. Morrison
I first "discovered" John Steinbeck back in the mid 50's when I was a student at the Army Language School (now called the Defense Language Institute, I think) in Monterey, California. At that time, all but one of the canneries had been shut down, as the sardines had disappeared from Monterey Bay, and the conversion of Cannery Row to a tourist Mecca wasn't even a gleam in some promoter's eye. I was able to spend my weekends ferreting out the sites dear to Steinbeck while I was reading about them. I particularly concentrated on Monterey, Pacific Grove and Salinas.
Through the years, I returned to Monterey Peninsula when I could and visited the Salinas Library, and later, as they opened, the various centers and museums dedicated to him. All in all, I thought that I was a real expert on Steinbeck. It took Parini's biography of Steinbeck to make me realize just how superficial my knowledge really was.
Reading Parini's biography of Steinbeck, I began to learn about Steinbeck as a flesh and blood human being. I knew of course, that he had a well developed social conscience and that he had never received the critical acclaim that he desired. Parini, however, brought to life a talented, tortured, stubborn, difficult Steinbeck that I hadn't known.
Nowhere are these aspects of Steinbeck's personality revealed better than in his struggles to write a new version of the Arthurian legend, or what he frequently referred to as "The Malory Project." Steinbeck had been fascinated with the Arthurian Legends since he had read, and understood, Malory's MORTE d'ARTHUR, at about the age of nine. It would seem that his life-long ambition was to write his own Arthurian saga.
Parini shows Steinbeck with writer's block, searching for the "right atmosphere," the right paper, the right kind of pens and ink, the right anything to give him the inspiration he needed to fulfill his life's ambition. He even left his English retreat to travel to Italy in search of possible Malory sources. Nothing worked and, in the end, he had to give up the Malory Project. With the abandonment of his dream, his health began the decline that only ended with his death. (His partially completed manuscript and many of his notes about the project were published after his death as THE ACTS OF KING ARTHUR AND HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS by John Steinbeck.
Parini's biography brings to life Steinbeck, the flawed man, and shows him with the courage to return to California's Central Valley after the publication of GRAPES OF WRATH made him persona non grata. It makes the reader feel the pain that Steinbeck felt when he suffered critical rejection. The reader lives through, with him, his marriages, his divorces, his weaknesses and his strenghths. I believe that this is the finest of the Steinbeck biographies.
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