Title:: [[The Winter of our Discontent]] Authors:: [[John Steinbeck]] Tags:: #fiction Read:: [[2024-11-13]] Instagram :: ## Editions - Edition:: [[Viking Penguin]], 1986 - Original Copyright:: 1961 - Pages:: 358 ## Purchase * Bookshop.org:: https://bookshop.org/a/94437/9780143039488 ## Annotations Recently moved into a new home where the previous owner left us some old books, including a stack of Steinbeck novels. Normalize leaving great books on the shelf when you move! The Winter of our Discontent is one I picked up last Wednesday morning apropos of everything everywhere, and thank goodness for that. I found it so, so good. Written in response to the “moral degeneration” of American culture during the ‘50s and ‘60s, it’s remarkable how well it continues to be a critique of the compounding degeneration. Ethan Allen Hawley, the main character, gives cynical George Bailey vibes (I realized early I was reading his voice like Jimmy Stewart, smh). Highly recommend.