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dark emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

"I understand that you are offered a loveliness and you vomit on it, that you have the gift of love given you such as few men have ever known and you throw on it the acid of your pride, your ugly twisted sense of importance."

Another Steinbeck, another five stars. An exploration of (male) pride, filled with wonderful prose. There is a section in this play-novelette that uses the image of passing seasons so strikingly, it made me gasp. Steinbeck has definitely become my favourite author over the past year and this piece of writing confirmed it.  

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