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Novel · 1961

The Winter of Our Discontent

John Steinbeck

Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy

Novel · 1961 · American · Modern

The Winter of Our Discontent

John Steinbeck

A grocery clerk from an old family decides, once, to be dishonest.

RealismMoral fictionIntegrityMoneyDecline

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His last novel, and the one the Nobel committee cited: corruption presented not as a fall but as a series of reasonable Tuesdays.

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