The Winter of Our Discontent

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Ethan Allen Hawley has lost the acquisitive spirit of his wealthy and enterprising forebears, a long line of proud New England sea captains and Pilgrims. Scarred by failure, Ethan works as a grocery clerk in a store his family once owned. But his wife is restless and his teenage children troubled and hungry for the material comforts he cannot provide. Then a series of unusual events reignites Ethan's ambition, and he is pitched onto a bold course, where all scruples are put aside. Steinbeck's searing examination of the evil influences of money, immorality, greed and ambition on America explores the consequences of abandoning one's principles in pursuit of wealth. 'Returns to the high standards of The Grapes of Wrath and to the social themes that made his early work so powerful' — Saul Bellow, author of Herzog