Pub Date: October 1, 1994
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 94008790
Lexile Code: 1000
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: 18 to UP
Physical Info: 0.33" H x 7.77" L x 5.10" W ( 0.23 lbs) 128 pages
BISAC Categories:
Fiction | Classics | Literary | Psychological
Description: For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dreams blind him to the greed that the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors. Baring the fallacy of the American dream--that wealth erases all problems--Steinbeck's classic illustrates our fall from innocence.
Review Quotes: "[The Pearl] has the distinction and sincerity that are evident in everything he writes."--The New Yorker
"Form is the most important thing about him. It is at its best in this work." --Commonweal
"[Steinbeck has] long trained his prose style for such a task as this: that supple unstrained, muscular power, responsive to the slightest pull of the reins."--Chicago Sunday Times