The fruited plain
fables for a postmodern democracy
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Author
Publication
2002 - Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut
Language
English
Word Count
65,000 words, Guess
Page Count
260 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivefruitedplainfabl00kern
- ISBN-100300092903
- ISBN-139780300092905
- Library of Congress Control Number2001005847
- OCLC Control Number48084355
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780300092905
- Open LibraryOL3939232M
Classifications
- DDC813/.6
- LCCPS3611.E76 F78 2002
- LCCPS3611.E76F78 2002
Description
"The beleaguered Joad family of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath struggled in an era of disappointed dreams and empty pockets. But how might the grandchildren of that Dust Bowl generation fare in today's more promising times? In this book Alvin Kernan sends various descendants of the original Joad family on a postmodern journey out of California and into the excesses of American culture at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The experiences of today's Joads are as hilarious as they are discomfiting: they encounter in Kernan's America a world of democracy gone haywire and social institutions in perplexing disarray."--BOOK JACKET.
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- The fruited plain: fables for a postmodern democracy
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