num_pages: 291
description: Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck’s last novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With Ethan no longer a member of Long Island’s aristocratic class, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards.Set in Steinbeck’s contemporary 1960 America, the novel explores the tenuous line between private and public honesty that today ranks it alongside his most acclaimed works of penetrating insight into the American condition. This edition features an introduction and notes by Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw.
language: English
title: The Winter of Our Discontent
titlecomplete: The Winter of Our Discontent
characters: Mr. Baker, Allen Hawley, Joey Morphy, Margie Young-Hunt, Ellen Hawley, Danny Taylor, Alfio Maurello, Mary Hawley, Ethan Allen Hawley
genres: 20th Century, American, Nobel Prize, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classic Literature, Classics, The United States Of America, Fiction
ratings_count: 46293
places: New York (State), Long Island, New York, New Baytown
publisher: Penguin Classics