The Winter of Our Discontent

The Winter of Our Discontent

1961 • 282 pages

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Steinbeck's last great novel focuses on the theme of success and what motivates men towards it. Reflecting back on his New England family's past fortune, and his father's loss of the family wealth, the hero, Ethan Allen Hawley, characterises successin every era and in all its forms as robbery, murder, even a kind of combat, operating under 'the laws of controlled savagery.'

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A very slow start led to interesting developments in which all of those details from the start were relevant and necessary. I ended up being gripped by the end and can see why this is such a lauded book.

July 10, 2018

“Does anyone ever know even the outer fringe of another? What are you like in there? Who are you in there?

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