Tortilla Flat – John Steinbeck (1942)

S$120.00

Tortilla Flat – John Steinbeck (1942)

S$120.00

An early edition in great condition (with dust jacket) about a small band of errant friends enjoying life and wine in the days after the end of the Great War.

Title: Tortilla Flat

Author: John Steinbeck, Ruth Gannett (illus)

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, New York. Copyright page says 1935, but research reveals exact printing date to be 1942. Scarce.

Condition: Hardcover, cloth, with dust jacket. Other than minor shelfwear and bumped corners, very good. Dust jacket also in good condition.

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Tortilla Flat (1935) is an early John Steinbeck novel set in Monterey, California. The novel was the author’s first clear critical and commercial success.

The book portrays a group of paisanos—literally, countrymen—a small band of errant friends enjoying life and wine in the days after the end of the Great War.

Tortilla Flat was made into a film in 1942. Steinbeck would later return to some of the panhandling locals of Monterey (though not the Spanish paisanos of the Flat) in his novel Cannery Row (1945).

– from wikipedia