Description
A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, this novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, it is also the story of one Oklahoma family, the Joads, who are driven off their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California.Lexile Measure:/ 680LAuthor: John Steinbeck. Paperback, 619 pages, 5 x 8 inches.
