TORTILLA FLAT
by Steinbeck, John
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140042407
- ISBN 13
- 9780140042405
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Penguin Books, 1977, 1986. Paperback. Very Good. Mass market paperback, book store stamp on endpaper else VG in yellow pictorial wraps. 207 pp. Steinbeck created a "Camelot" on a shabby hillside above the town of Monterey, California, and peopled it with a colorful band of knights. At the center of the tale is Danny, whose house, like Arthur's castle, becomes a gathering place for men looking for adventure, camaraderie, and a sense of belonging-men who fiercely resist the corrupting tide of honest toil and civil rectitude.
Synopsis
Tortilla Flat (1935) is an early Steinbeck novel set in Monterey, California. The book portrays with great sympathy and humour a group of paisanos (fellows/countrymen), denouncing society by enjoying life and wine in the idyllic days after the end of the Great War and preceding U.S. prohibition. Tortilla Flat was made into a film in 1942. Steinbeck would later return to the some of the panhandling locals of Monterey (though not the Spanish paisanos of the Flat) in his novel Cannery Row (1945).
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Details
- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85374
- Title
- TORTILLA FLAT
- Author
- Steinbeck, John
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0140042407
- ISBN 13
- 9780140042405
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, 1977
- Place of Publication
- New York, Ny
- Date Published
- 1986
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- Mass Market
- Mass market paperback books, or MMPBs, are printed for large audiences cheaply. This means that they are smaller, usually 4...
- Pictorial Wraps
- Pictorial wraps are color illustrated covers for paperback books. Preceding mass-market paperbacks, this format brought popular...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...