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by Elaine Steinbeck (Author), E. Wallsten Steinbeck (Author), John Steinbeck (Author) "When John Steinbeck was twenty-four and broke, he found a way to support himself while working at what mattered most to him-becoming a writer ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 928 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books; Reissue edition (1976)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140042881
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140042887
  • Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.7 x 4.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Dear John......, 25 Nov 2001
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This review is from: A Life in Letters (Penguin Modern Classics) (Paperback)
This 'Life in Letters', edited by Elaine Steinbeck and Robert Wallsten is an incredibly fascinating read, a personal insight into one of America's greatest writers who was instinctively a private man who never in his life played the 'public personality card'. For this reason all the scraps of notes, private letters and official correspondences that have been gathered here, along with some poignant notes from the editors, make this book a storehouse of information and insight, a patchwork of American history from 1923 to the late sixties through the eyes of a private man.
There are notes to friends charting the early years of obscurity and poverty, his self belief the only fuel behind him. Then troubled letters complaing of the diffulculties of the popularity that swept over him with the success of 'Of Mice and Men' and 'The Grapes of Wrath'.
It is ironic that the thing that most disturbed him about his popularity was the amount of letters he received, tragic letters pleading for money. As Steinbeck professed himself in one of his early letters he was a man who could only communicate in print hence his disturbance at receiving these pleas in his beloved form.
For a man who found telephones 'terrifying' and 'horrific', his whole life he leant on the 'letter' as a way of combatting the isolation that he felt must be the way of life for a novelist. Sometimes they are weapons to cut through crap to friends who are more familiar with his face in life magazine than his real identity, soemtimes they are encoded messages arranging liasons with lovers. There are evn several letters to The President offering his help in concern with the coming Second World War.
They reveal a man who lived to write, and these documents remain evidence of the man outside the novel's that he kept for himself and his close friends.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Another Brilliant Steinbeck, 14 Feb 2003
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I bought this book after reading "Travels With Charly" and I was not disappointed. Through these letters you get an amazingly complete picture of Steinbeck's life, this book follows him through his first publication, his many others that were to follow, right up to his death. If you like Steinbeck then you MUST read this book.
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