![]() ![]() ![]() I am enjoying it and I need something to help me over this last ditch” (Steinbeck and Wallsten). I don’t care whether it amounts to anything. Steinbeck even drew joy from writing the work: “it is light and I think amusing. Danny and his round table of friends are rarely concerned with any of those issues as they meander through life in Monterey, undeniably poor, but not experiencing the tragedy of poverty in the same way as many of Steinbeck’s later characters. escape from grinding poverty, escape from worrying about how to pay the rent, escape from worrying about how to find a job” (San Jose). The lighthearted tone of Tortilla Flat lifted the spirits of Americans during the Great Depression, for whom “reading and the movies were escape. Housed in custom blue leather-backed clamshell box.Bound in original tan cloth binding with blue spine lettering, blue topstain, fore-edge machine deckle.Original unclipped ($2.50) pictorial dust jacket in blue and black.Illustrated throughout in black and white.Illustrated by Ruth Gannett (American).First edition of this oft-comical tale of post-World War I Monterey, following the exploits of a wine-loving and vaguely Arthurian group of paisanos, a beautiful copy in the scarce original dust jacket. ![]()
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