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The Wayward Bus travelled the backroads through the lush California countryside. Its driver was a man of the land - lusty, hot-blooded and uninhibited. On the bus was a girl who danced at stag parties, a travelling salesman strictly out for fun, a boy coming into manhood and a college girl pursuing her secret, passionate quest. This is a story of crisis and passion, of love and longing. In many ways it is one of Steinbeck's most powerful novels, not least because it shows just how profound his knowledge of human beings and their emotions is.
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Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His key novels have been huge best-sellers in the UK for many years. His complete works will be available in Penguin Modern Classics.
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Forty-two miles below San Ysidro, on a great north-south highway in California, there is a crossroad which for eighty-odd years has been called Rebel Corners. Read the first page
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Forty-two miles below San Ysidro, on a great north-south highway in California, there is a crossroad which for eighty-odd years has been called Rebel Corners. Read the first page
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A simple enough storyline: a bus with a variety of passengers (from all walks of life) gets mired in the Californian hills, with bad weather threatening.
Yet Steinbeck's uncanny facility for clear characterisations (something that many of his modern-day counterparts would do well to copy) brings life to these names on the pages -- Camille, the voluptuous dancer, and Ernest, the travelling salesman, Mildred the learned girl, and Juan the almost "noble savage" who drives the bus, and indeed the story.
Many reviewers would try to see this book as a microcosm of society's frailties, and yet Steinbeck pulls the threads of this yarn together in such a way to present a colourful, entertaining tale.
A treat for newcomers and Steinbeck fans alike, providing another insight into the true America of the 1940's.
Yet Steinbeck's uncanny facility for clear characterisations (something that many of his modern-day counterparts would do well to copy) brings life to these names on the pages -- Camille, the voluptuous dancer, and Ernest, the travelling salesman, Mildred the learned girl, and Juan the almost "noble savage" who drives the bus, and indeed the story.
Many reviewers would try to see this book as a microcosm of society's frailties, and yet Steinbeck pulls the threads of this yarn together in such a way to present a colourful, entertaining tale.
A treat for newcomers and Steinbeck fans alike, providing another insight into the true America of the 1940's.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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I'm really into Steinbeck now with quite a few of his works under my belt and many more to go. This is not one of his brooding epics; it is at the easier reading end of the scale in the company of Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday, etc. It's entertaining, never demanding, and studded with interesting characters. Almost all of them have personality flaws that they normally try to hide from view but which become exposed during their wayward journey.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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`Wayward Bus' is yet another exceptional novel from Steinbeck that shows us just why he won the nobel prize and how he was able to weave a wonderful story out of seemingly mundane and common place events. This book follows a group of passengers on a bus as they travel along it's route and the events that hinder them. It looks at how they react to these events and each other as they try to reach their destination. Of course there is more to the story than that, but you'd need to read it to find out more. It has the most defined character studies you will ever see in a book and the dialogue between characters really makes you live and breathe the scenes with them. The language is rich and descriptive and I've yet to read a Steinbeck book I don't like and this is as good as many other of his books I`ve read. Steinbeck manages to create beauty in the simplest of images and it is often these small touches that elevate the book from merely being good, to being great. This was written between `Cannery Row' and `The Pearl' and when Steinbeck was at his peak and if you are yet to try any of his works this would be a fine place to start, of course that applies to many of his other novels as well! This is simply constructed, elegant and beautiful and well worth a read.
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The Wayward Bus.....Steinbeck
Having read a lot of Steinbeck's work in the past, I was not surprised that this book was beautifully constructed. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mr. M. I. Christie
Love Steinbeck - love life....
I decided to read all the Steinbecks I hadn't read previously and ended up re-reading all those I had read previously just for the joy of them. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Kitaj
Thumbs up for nuanced characters.
The Wayward Bus was chosen for our bookclub and it went down a storm. The quality of the writing just stood out against most fiction written today. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Black Lab
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