![]() ![]() His vivid depictions are more than capable of having the reader find themselves in those hills above Monterey in that ramshackle “house,” in any of the other locales, and immersed fully in the story. ![]() Tortilla Flat, for all of its fictional underpinnings, is, I would suggest, a quite true-to-life portrait of that time and place that JS has painted in hues both subtle and bold. This is a wonderfully told story that reverberates with Steinbeck’s appealing, colourful writing that captures and tells so eloquently the adventures (and the lives in general) of this disparate group of characters. ![]() because perhaps for no other reason than he can supply the group with shelter, and perhaps because he is – or appears on the surface to be – the one best able to keep them functioning day to day. We have here the story of a small band of men who, at the end of the 2nd World War (and by their very nature) find little to motivate them other than to satisfy a seemingly unquenchable thirst for wine.ĭanny serves as protagonist with the others gravitating to him because. ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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