The Fruited Plain - Fables for a Postmodern Democracy

Summary

The Joad family of Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" struggled in an era of disappointed dreams and empty pockets. In this volume Alvin Kernan sends various descendants of the Joad family on a postmodern journey into the excesses of American culture at the beginning of the 21st century.

Product details

• Authors: Alvin Kernan, Alvin B. Kernan
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.04.2002
• EAN: 9780300092905
• ISBN: 978-0-300-09290-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Weight: 494 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries