East of Eden
By: John Steinbeck.
Edition: Reissue edition (18)
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York, N.Y., USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 778
ISBN-13: 9780140049978
Copyright date: 1980
Subjects: Children of prostitutes -- Fiction; Fathers and sons -- Fiction; Sibling rivalry -- Fiction; Brothers -- Fiction; Salinas River Valley (Calif.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Adam Trask came to California from the East to farm and raise his family on the new, rich land. But the birth of his twins, Cal and Aron, brings his wife to the brink of madness, and Adam is left alone to raise his boys to manhood. One boy thrives, nurtured by the love of all those around him; the other grows up in loneliness, enveloped by a mysterious darkness. 

As Steinbeck interweaves the stories of the Trasks and their neighbors, the prosperous, open-hearted Hamiltons, he portrays men and women determined to conquer not only the land but the forces of love and hate, trust and suspicion within their hearts.
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Notes: CAN/US