num_pages: 592
description: An alternate cover edition can be found here  and here.In stark and moving detail, John Steinbeck depicts the lives of ordinary people striving to preserve their humanity in the face of social and economic desperation. When the Joads lose their tenant farm in Oklahoma, they join thousands of others, traveling the narrow concrete highways toward California and the dream of a piece of land to call their own. Each night on the road, they and their fellow migrants recreate society: leaders are chosen, unspoken codes of privacy and generosity evolve, and lust, violence, and murderous rage erupt.A portrait of the bitter conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of a woman's quiet, stoical strength, 
  The Grapes of Wrath
 is a landmark of American literature, one that captures the horrors of the Great Depression as it probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America.
language: English
title: The Grapes of Wrath
titlecomplete: The Grapes of Wrath
characters: Ma Joad, Granma Joad, Connie Rivers, Al Joad, Grampa Joad, Jim Casy, Tom Joad, Noah Joad, Rose of Sharon Joad Rivers, Ruthie Joad, Winfield Joad, Pa Joad, Uncle John Joad
genres: American, Historical Fiction, Historical, Novels, School, Literature, High School, Classic Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 880950
places: Route 66, The United States of America, California, Oklahoma
awards: awardedAt: -946742400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Novel, awardedAt: -978278400000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: -978278400000
name: California Book Award
category: General Literature (Silver), awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Audie Award
category: Classic
publisher: Penguin Books