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    The Pearl

    By John Steinbeck, Linda Wagner-Martin and Jose Clemente Orozco

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    “There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.”
     
    Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull's egg, as "perfect as the moon." With the pearl comes hope, the promise of comfort and of security....

    A story of classic simplicity, based on a Mexican folk tale, The Pearl explores the secrets of man's nature, the darkest depths of evil, and the luminous possibilities of love.


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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Group
    Release dateOct 1, 1994
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    John Steinbeck

    John Steinbeck (Salinas, 1902 - Nueva York, 1968). Narrador y dramaturgo estadounidense. Estudió en la Universidad de Stanford, pero desde muy joven tuvo que trabajar duramente como albañil, jornalero rural, agrimensor o empleado de tienda. En la década de 1930 describió la pobreza que acompañó a la Depresión económica y tuvo su primer reconocimiento crítico con la novela Tortilla Flat, en 1935. Sus novelas se sitúan dentro de la corriente naturalista o del realismo social americano. Su estilo, heredero del naturalismo y próximo al periodismo, se sustenta sin embargo en una gran carga de emotividad en los argumentos y en el simbolismo presente en las situaciones y personajes que crea, como ocurre en sus obras mayores: De ratones y hombres (1937), Las uvas de la ira (1939) y Al este del Edén (1952). Obtuvo el premio Nobel en 1962.

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      My brother made me read this. Thank you, Bill! Pearl Dickenson inherits a home place from an uncle she never knew. She moves to Nodd's Ridge in New England and warms her way into the small town and the hearts of its residents. These characters are so alive, I would recognize any of them on the street. As my brother says, she writes with the same brilliance as her husband about people and relationships, she just doesn't have to have the scary stuff to make the book come alive.