Title: The fruited plain
First published: 2002
Description: "The beleaguered Joad family of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath struggled in an era of disappointed dreams and empty pockets. But how might the grandchildren of that Dust Bowl generation fare in today's more promising times? In this book Alvin Kernan sends various descendants of the original Joad family on a postmodern journey out of California and into the excesses of American culture at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

The experiences of today's Joads are as hilarious as they are discomfiting: they encounter in Kernan's America a world of democracy gone haywire and social institutions in perplexing disarray."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: American Humorous stories, Satire, American, Fables, American, American Satire, American Fables, Humorous stories, American, Domestic fiction, American, American Domestic fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author)
LC classification: PS3611.E76 F78 2002