The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath
Paperback, 6 x 8, with b&w photos, 80 pages.
ISBN: 9781890771614.
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Gathered in this important volume are seven newspaper articles on migrant farm workers that John Steinbeck wrote for The San Francisco News in 1936, three years before The Grapes of Wrath. With the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter and the emotional power of a novelist in his prime, Steinbeck toured the squatters’ camps and Hoovervilles of California.
The Harvest Gypsies gives us an eyewitness account of the horrendous Dust Bowl migration, a major event in California history, and provides the factual foundation for Steinbeck’s masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath. Included are twenty-two photographs by Dorothea Lange and others, many of which accompanied Steinbeck’s original articles.
Reviews
''Written in the best tradition of advocacy journalism…Steinbeck moves among the migrants, pen in one hand, fruit pail in the other, alternately picking and penning his way to literary glory.'' The Village Voice
''Contains some of Steinbeck's best journalism.'' The Nation
''Steinbeck's potent blend of empathy and moral outrage was perfectly matched by the photographs of Dorothea Lange, who had caught the whole saga with her camera--the tents, the jalopies, the bindlestiffs, the pathos and courage of uprooted mothers and children.'' San Francisco Review of Books
''Steinbeck's journalism shares the enduring quality of his famous novel.'' Publishers Weekly
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