Carol and John Steinbeck Portrait of a Marriage

Name: Carol and John Steinbeck Portrait of a Marriage
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ISBN: 9780874179309

ISBN-10: 0874179300

ISBN-13: 9780874179309

Edition: 2013

Authors: Susan Shillinglaw

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Carol Henning Steinbeck, writer John Steinbeck’s first wife, was his creative anchor, the inspiration for his great work of the 1930s, culminating in The Grapes of Wrath. Meeting at Lake Tahoe in 1928, their attachment was immediate, their personalities meshing in creative synergy. Carol was unconventional, artistic, and compelling. In the formative years of Steinbeck’s career, living in San Francisco, Pacific Grove, Los Gatos, and Monterey, their Modernist circle included Ed Ricketts, Joseph Campbell, and Lincoln Steffens. In many ways Carol’s story is all too familiar: a creative and intelligent woman subsumes her own life and work into that of her husband. Together, they brought forth…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Publication date: 10/20/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Introduction



Renegades



Make It New: Lake Tahoe, San Francisco and Eagle Rock



Home in Pacific Grove



At Ed Ricketts's Lab



Wave Shock, 1932-35



"Viva Mexico!"



California Is a "Bomb Right Now …Highly Explosive" Writing The Grapes of Wrath



Enter Gwen Conger



On the Sea of Cortez



Life in Fragments


Coda


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index