A Compelling, Epic Drama ; Review Bill Stone
Plymouth Evening Herald, The › October 09, 2009
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JOHN Steinbeck's angry 1939 novel is on an epic scale. It is epic in its characters and sweep across a continent, and bitter in its attack on economic exploitation and a harsh capitalist system that, when coupled with natural disasters, led to impoverishing and uprooting whole communities. But most reprehensible is man's inhumanity to man. Some things haven't changed much.
The tragic story has sinew and muscle. The Joad family, virtuous Oklahoma sharecroppers, are like thousands of others, booted off their parched land. They set off for the promised milk and honey of California. After a journey plagued by death, heat, hunger and humiliation, they find hostile sheriffs and thugs, and greedy employers paying barely liveable wages to the hundreds of workers contesting every job.See the full content of this document
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A Compelling, Epic Drama ; Review Bill Stone
Simon Higlet provides an eloquent, distorted set that smells of poverty...
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