A review by annepw
The Short Reign of Pippin IV by John Steinbeck

3.0

I read 'Pippin IV' because a professor recommended it to my European politics class as a spot-on parody of mid-century French politics, and I suppose to some extent it is that. It's a good deal zanier than I expected, and topical enough to not age as well as much Steinbeck, in addition to being an outlier in general in the Steinbeck catalogue, but it's a strangely entertaining little romp that doesn't deserve to have been overlooked as completely as it has been.