East of Eden
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden the first book, and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth Set in the rich farmland of California s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families the Trasks and the Hamiltons whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.Adam Trask came to California from the East to farm and raise his family on the new rich land But the birth of his twins, Cal and Aaron, brings his wife to the brink of madness, and Adam is left alone to raise his boys to manhood One boy trhives nurtured by the love of all those around him the other grows up in loneliness enveloped by a mysterious darkness.First published in 1952, East of Eden is the work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes the mystery of identity, the enecplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love s absence A masterpiece of Steinbeck s later years, East of Eden is a powerful and vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis jacket flap Read East of Eden Author John Steinbeck – kino-fada.fr All great and precious things are lonelySuch an amazing book An instant all time favourite.I m sure you ve heard of this book Often touted as one of the greatest novels of all time or books you must read before you die For some reason, I ve been putting it off Maybe because I was made to study Of Mice and Men to death in school, or maybe because I thought The Grapes of Wrath was a little overrated But I ve been missing out.A closer look should have told me that Because I love famiAll great and precious things are lonelySuch an amazing book An instant all time favourite.I m sure you ve heard of this book Often touted as one of the greatest novels of all time or books you must read before you die For some reason, I ve been putting it off Maybe because I w...This book is mind blowing It is John Steinbeck at his sharpest He said that every author really only has one book, and that all of his books leading up to East of Eden were just practice Eden would be his book I could write a summary of the book, but it would betrouble than it s worth You will often hear it referred to as a modern retelling of the Genesis story of Cain and Abel but that is too...I want to marry this book and have its babies I can t remember the last time I felt such a deep sense of satisfaction after finishing a book Every part of it was a delicious page turning delight This was pretty close to perfection and it s up there as one of my top ten favorite books Steinbeck weaves his tale amongst gorgeously saturated descriptions of the Salinas valley, a truly beautiful part of the country It s such a sweepingly epic and engrossing read which has everything a wonderful I want to marry this book and have its babies I can t remember the last time I felt such a deep sense of satisfaction after finishing a book Every part of it was a delicious page turning delight This was pretty close to perfection and it s up there as one of my top ten favorite books Steinbeck weaves his tale amongst gorgeously saturated descriptions of the Salinas valley, a truly beautiful part of the country It s such a sweepingly epic and engrossing read which has everything a wonderful novel shoul...I hate this book Hate Ponderous, pretentious, melodramatic, self satisfied, patronizing to its readers, with ultimately nothing to say Can be summarized thus a bunch of people with no formal education whatsoever sit around discussing the time they read the Old Testament in Hebrew They then tell us all how to live Uhright I knew we were in trouble with the unbelievably lame introduction some forced, self congratulatory metaphor about a box, if memory serves but it s hard to believ I hate this book Hate Ponderous, pretentious, melodramatic, self satisfied, patron...Steinbeck s classic East of Eden is a masterpiece and one of his finest books It tells the history of Steinbeck s own family, the Hamiltons, and that of the Trask family The epic is set in Steinbeck s native Salinas Valley in California and the beauty of the region is described in endless, passionate detail.The characters are all beautifully drawn and the story is captivating I ll add some quotes here before returning the book to the library, but it was extremely pleasurable to read cover to Steinbeck s classic East of Eden is a masterpiece and one of his finest books It tells the history of Steinbeck s own family, the Hamiltons, and that of the Trask family The epic is set in Steinbeck s native Salinas Valley in California and the beauty of the region is described in endless, passionate detail.The characters are all beautifully drawn and the story is captivating I ll add some quotes here before returning the book to the library, but it was extremely pleasurable to read cover...I have no words to describe what this novel did to my reading self It was my first Steinbeck, and it made me fall in love with his writing, his ideas, his cry for individual freedom and social justice It made me ache for goodness in a world of evil, and it made me respect the power of storytelling to explain the inexplicable difficulties of family life It was the first time I felt scared of a fictional character I don t think I have ever been so deeply shaken as by Cathy Kate, and she remain I have no words to describe what this novel did to my reading self It was my first Steinbeck, and it made me fall in love with his writing, his ideas, his cry for individual freedom and social justice It made me ache for goodness in a world of evil, and it made me respect the power of storytelling to explain the inexplicable difficulties of family life It was the first time I felt scared of a fictional character I don t think I have ever been so deeply shaken as by Cathy Kate, and she remains the villain with whom I compare all other literary villains And yet, she fascinated me, she was like a snake hypnotising a mouse, and she merged the mythical ideas of Eve and the serpent into one powerful person destructive and beautiful, exciting and dangerous Yet despite the biblical references which dominate the narrative, th... East of Eden is a uniquely fragmented hotchpotch A fantastical fable, a retelling of the biblical tale of the original sin, a documented testimony of early settlers in the Salinas Valley through the perspective of three generations, a fictionalized biography of Steinbeck s own grandfather, a subversive political text, an essay that blends modern philosophy with ancient wisdom.It s probable that Steinbeck s ambitious scope and his need to reach universal meaning might encumber the narration with East of Eden is a uniquely fragmented hotchpotch A fantastical fable, a retelling of the biblical tale of the original sin, a documented testimony of early settlers in the Salinas Valley through the perspective of three generations, a fictionalized biography of Steinbeck s own grandfather, a subversive political text, an essay that blends modern philosophy with ancient wisdom...Very easy for me to rate this book 5 stars It is amazing There is so much in it and it is not hard to read It just tells it like it is and does it so well.It is like a high priced, high quality buffet with lots of different stations At each of those stations is a main table with an awesome featured food thick cut prime rib, chocolate fondue fountain, Mongolian BBQ bowl, etc In layman s terms, there is SO MUCH awesome story here with a HUGE payoff every 50 pages or so I am very satisfied Very easy for me to rate this book 5 stars It is amazing There is so much in it and it is not hard to read It just tells it like it is and does it so well.It is like a high priced, high quality buffet with lots of different stations At each of those stations is a main table with an awesome featured food thick cut prime rib, chocolate fondue fountain, Mongolian BBQ bowl, etc In layman s t... East of Eden, a 1952 novel, was a long, sprawling, sometimes slow but often very intense read Steinbeck considered it his magnum opus It begins at the turn of the century in Connecticut, telling about the difficult childhood of Adam Trask and the pains and troubles caused him by his half brother Charles Adam meets and marries Cathy Ames, whom he blindly loves, but who is a truly evil, completely self centered woman at heart They move out to the Salinas Valley in California, where they have t East of Eden, a 1952 novel, was a long, sprawling, sometimes slow but often very intense read Steinbeck considered it his magnum opus It begins at the turn of the century in Connecticut, telling about the difficult childhood of Adam Trask and the pains and troubles caused him by his half brother Charles Adam meets and marries Cathy Ames, whom he blindly loves, b....
- English
- 21 December 2018 John Steinbeck
- Paperback
- 601 pages
- 0142000655
- John Steinbeck
- East of Eden