But, alongside its questionable sexual politics of the time, a prevalent sadness and more than a hint of covert damning social commentary underscores the novel. This hardcover was issued without a dust jacket, it is a special French commemoratiive edition of Tortilla Flat translated by Brigitte V. Preceding classics such as The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck’s novel (his first commercial success), written (in 1935) at the time of the Great Depression, is predominantly light with sharply defined characters. : Tortilla Flat.: Paris, Editions Rombaldi, n.

But they all strive to live together in some sort of harmony, sharing the wine they may have come by. All look to score the advantage, usually linked to wine or food, occasionally women. Danny, Pilon, Big Joe, Pablo and Pirate are the bibulous main characters, none totally honest, each with different levels of acceptable morality towards each other, friends, neighbours, acquiantances, strangers.

Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts. The novels promise was dimmed by Steinbecks evident inability to understand his real success. Titles such as How three sinful men, through contrition, attained peace or How Danny’s Friends threw themselves to the aid of a distressed lady give an indication of content and narrative. Tortilla Flat By: John Steinbeck Narrated by: John McDonough Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins 4.4 (979 ratings) Try for 0.00 Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases. Tortilla Flat (1935) was John Steinbecks first artistic and commercial success. A fair rent is agreed but neither paid nor expected to be paid. Shared bottles of wine, brandy and a stolen chicken or two quickly lead various friends moving into one or the other of the houses. A drifter, more interested in the source of the next gallon of wine, Danny returns to California from army life post World War I to discover he has inherited two ramshackle homes up in the hills. Short and sweet, most a few pages long, the stories feature Steinbeck at his irreverent best. A collage of paisano adventures in and around the isolated and shabby Tortilla Flat district found in the hills overlooking Monterey and the Pacific Ocean.

Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck