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| Title | : | The Wayward Bus |
| Author | : | John Steinbeck |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 261 pages |
| Published | : | March 28th 2006 by Penguin Classics (first published February 1947) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Literature |
John Steinbeck
Paperback | Pages: 261 pages Rating: 3.85 | 8671 Users | 602 Reviews
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In his first novel to follow the publication of his enormous success, The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck’s vision comes to life in this imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus traveling California’s back roads, transporting the lost and the lonely, the good and the greedy, the stupid and the scheming, the beautiful and the vicious away from their shattered dreams and, possibly, toward the promise of the future. This edition features an introduction by Gary Scharnhorst.Specify Books During The Wayward Bus
| Original Title: | The Wayward Bus |
| ISBN: | 0142437875 (ISBN13: 9780142437872) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Norma, Juan Chicoy, Alice Chicoy, Pimples, Elliott Pritchard, Bernice Pritchard, Mildred Pritchard, Ernest Horton, Camille Oaks |
| Setting: | Rebel Corners(United States) |
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Ratings: 3.85 From 8671 Users | 602 ReviewsCriticize Regarding Books The Wayward Bus
An unlikely group of characters are travelling through rural South California by bus. In his unique style Steinbeck proceeds to explore each personality in intricate detail; their inhibitions, motivations, intimate thoughts and hopes for the future.Theres the emotional and uninhibited bus driver Juan Chicoy and his adolescent assistant, Kit, aptly nicknamed Pimples. Ernest Horton, the itinerant and sociable salesman and the conservative Mr and Mrs Pritchard and their twenty one year old daughtersteinbeck pulverizes me. i'm not the type to get choked up by calling-card commercials or whose heart swells with the violins at the end of a sappy movie, but steinbeck has a heart-seeking missile aimed directly at me, and he knows just how to find my emotional center. this has always been my favorite of steinbeck's works, even though it is a shortish one in which very little actually happens. but steinbeck's strength, for me, has always been his characters, and this is one prolonged character
My favorite present was when I was 15 or 16. A Christmas. There were clothes and things. But my brother wrapped two paperback books for me: The Catcher in the Rye and The Grapes of Wrath. Two days later I was an addict.I was also a completist. Down went the other Salingers quickly. And Steinbeck? Well, he was God. I had read maybe a dozen or more of his books before Travels with Charley and I had my moment of doubt. What kind of man owns a poodle?And so there was a hiatus, if you can call forty
I tried, but found myself increasingly feeling forced to return to the book. A character is introduced who repeatedly refers to women as "pigs" as though the words were interchangable, which was my cue to bail. Great writing and narration, but the story was full of characters I disliked.
Oct 2007: As always, a brilliant allegorist, incredibly keen on the simple and the complex, sometimes entirely perverse or wholly innocent, sometimes silly or sensible inner life of people, without ever resorting to the judgment of his characters. As always, pretty landscapes, words I've never seen before (useful ones too!), and a well-drawn portrait of a little place in that little window of time during which the old West became new. Unusual for Steinbeck: an amused narrator, which I quite
"He tried to remember old times when it seemed to him that he was happy, when he had felt pure joy, and little pictures came into his mind. There was a very early morning with chill air and the sun was coming up behind the mountains and in a muddy road little gray birds were hopping. There wasn't any reason for joy, but it had been there." (204)
I should put this under poetry. I should put all Steinbeck under poetry.One of the unfortunate victims of teaching (and especially student teaching) are the books we seek to read outside of scouring the curriculum day-in and day-out. I started this sorry soul about two months ago, and even though my heart swelled each time I picked it up, I was lucky to get a page in between finishing lesson planning at night and passing out as soon as my head hit the pillow. GAH! And so, out of defiance of
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