Ebook: East of Eden
Author: John Steinbeck
- Tags: Salinas River Valley (Calif.), Fiction, Fathers and sons, Fiction, Sibling rivalry, Fiction, Brothers, Fiction, Brothers, Fathers and sons, Sibling rivalry, California, Salinas River Valley
- Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
- City: Princeton, N.J., Salinas River Valley (Calif.), California--Salinas River Valley
- Language: English
- epub
This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks' and the Hamilton's--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The story of two brothers, Aron is a clean-cut model student, engaged to be married, the pride of his hardworking father. Cal is a Read more...
Abstract: This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks' and the Hamilton's--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The story of two brothers, Aron is a clean-cut model student, engaged to be married, the pride of his hardworking father. Cal is a rebellious loner, sternly rejected by his father