Book description
Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters,
searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have
nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day
they?ll find a place of their own and live the American dream. But
dreams come at a price. Gentle giant Lennie doesn?t know his own
strength, and when they find work at a ranch he gets into trouble with
the boss?s daughter-in-law. Trouble so bad that even his protector
George may not be able to save him ? John Steinbeck (1902-1968) is
remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the
twentieth century. During the 1930s, his works included The Red Pony,
Pastures of Heaven, Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle, and Of Mice and
Men. The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, earned him a Pulitzer
Prize. In 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
