The Winter of Our Discontent (Used Hardcover) - John Steinbeck

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.

Published 1961 Viking Press, Book Club Edition

281 pages

5.75" X 8.5"

Condition: This book is in Good Condition. The pages are clean and unmarked except for a price penciled on the flyleaf. The pages are beginning to separate from the binding at the front, but the binding is intact. The dust jacket is worn on the edges.