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Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders over. See all 51 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Robert demott born november 22, 1943 is an american author, scholar, and editor best known for his influential scholarship on writer john steinbeck, winner of the pulitzer prize for the grapes of wrath 1939, and the nobel prize for literature in 1962. The book won the national book award and pulitzer prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when steinbeck was awarded the nobel prize in 1962 set during the great depression, the novel focuses on the joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their oklahoma home by drought.
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