Favorite Quote:
"The rough fingers of violent experience had harped upon his soul." Steinbeck observes about the book's hero Danny.
Not sure whether Tortilla Flat is a happy or sad story, but I was moved by the intense loyalty, although occasionally very immoral loyalty, of the paisanos and the community around them.
Steinbeck writes so beautifully as if the stories roll out of his mind in one long poem. I still need to finish East of Eden, which is my father's favorite book, and which I read half of a long time ago, and never got around to finishing. That'll be on my shortlist of things to do when we get back to the states and have our storage items accessible.
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