Unless he outright said, “Don’t publish my werewolf book, babes,” then I’m not sure we can say that was his wish. Well, he also didn’t destroy it, as he did with two other early novels. Because the author didn’t write it under his own name, and because he didn’t publish it when he was alive, they’re not gonna. And maybe that’s a good thing because Steinbeck’s literary agency, McIntosh & Otis, has declined to publish the novel. It is an unsettling story whose atmosphere is one of fog-bound, malicious, malignant secrecy.” Still, though, Gavin Jones, a professor at Stanford, says, “Even though it is very different from Steinbeck’s other work, in a totally different genre, it actually relates to his interest in violent human transformation – the kind of human-animal connection that you find all over his work his interest in mob violence and how humans are capable of other states of being, including particularly violent murderers…It’s a whole new Steinbeck – one that predicts Californian noir detective fiction. Add to Favorites The Pastures of Heaven - John Steinbeck - Vintage Paperback Book - 75 cent Bantam Edition. He used the name Peter Pym, perhaps because the subject matter is so different from his usual stuff. 1935 John Steinbeck Book Set / Vintage John Steinbeck Colliers - Of Mice and Men, Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle / B934 OurLifeInTheWoods 5 out of 5 stars (1,660) 36.00. Steinbeck, however, didn’t write the 233-page book under his own name.
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