A Journey into Steinbeck's California (ArtPlace) by Susan Shillinglaw,Nancy Burnett

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By Susan Shillinglaw,Nancy Burnett

This half paintings e-book, half biography, and half trip consultant bargains perception into how landscapes and townscapes inspired John Steinbeck's artistic approach and the way, in flip, his legacy has inspired sleek California. numerous varieties of readers will relish the knowledge during this guideliterary pilgrims will examine extra in regards to the kingdom featured so prominently in Steinbeck's paintings, travelers can stopover at a similar constructions that he lived in and wrote approximately, and historians will relish the engrossing standpoint on everyday life in early and mid 20th-century California. delivering a completely new viewpoint on Steinbeck and the folks and areas that he dropped at existence in his writing, this variation incorporates a excellent number of images, sketches, and work, together with a few from deepest, hardly noticeable collections. With a brand new preface from the writer, up-to-date info on featured web content, a brand new dialogue on Steinbeck’s ecological pursuits and actions, and a longer exploration of his many travels to Mexico, readers will locate take pleasure in this depiction of the symbiotic dating among an writer and his favourite places.

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A Journey into Steinbeck's California (ArtPlace)

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