num_pages: 118
description: Alternative Cover Edition ISBN 0553266756 (ISBN13: 9780553266757)Traveling across America in search of who you are - now they do it on cycles, in cars, by bus or in the time-honored tradition of foot and thumb. The wanderers of today may wear their hair long and speak a different jargon, but their trip is one that men (and women) have taken for as long as this country has been pushing at its frontiers. John Steinbeck writes of such a trip in Of Mice and Men: the desperate longing of men for some kind of home - roots that they can believe in, land that they can care for - and the painful search for self. This beautiful, timeless novel speaks of the love that men can feel for each other - one inarticulate, dumb, sometimes violent in his need; the other clever, hopeful, and tied to a responsibility he thinks he doesn't want.--back cover
language: English
title: Of Mice and Men
titlecomplete: Of Mice and Men
characters: George Milton, Curley, Carlson, Candy, Lennie Small, Crooks, Slim, Curley's Wife, Whit
genres: Read For School, American, Historical Fiction, Historical, School, Novels, Literature, High School, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 2457529
places: Salinas Valley, California, California
awards: awardedAt: -1009814400000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best American Play
publisher: Bantam Books