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1. "“I want to put a tag of shame on the greedy bastards who are responsible for this”, he wrote angrily as he was preparing to write his epic novel The Grapes of Wrath."
2. "Jay Parini, in his biography of Steinbeck, calls The Grapes of Wrath “one of the great angry books” of politically engaged fiction."
3. "The Grapes of Wrath won Steinbeck a legion of followers amongst ordinary people, including those who normally dont read novels, especially the cynical and complex novels which speak in the language of the literary elite."
4. "Parini notes the irony for the author of The Grapes of Wrath “The Steinbeck of three decades earlier would surely have sniffed out the injustice”."
5. "Earlier, in 1939, he had written the emotionally powerful conclusion to The Grapes of Wrath when Rose offers her breast to a starving man, symbolising the development of a collective consciousness and unity of the oppressed."
6. "Thatvson was what the Joad family in The Grapes of Wrath, and Steinbeck himself, had glimpsed and been inspired by."
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