The protagonist, Ethan Allen Hawley, is the descendant of a family of whalers (and pirates, it seems) in a small town in the East Coast. Made glorious summer by this sun of York.” I’m glad I managed to look past this.Īnd no, I didn’t know that the title of this novel is a reference to Shakespeare’s Richard III (1594): “Now is the winter of our discontent. The cheesy book cover – of a man, standing in front of a dramatic painting of a ship at sea, with his hand around the bare waist of a woman in a petticoat – nearly made me put the book back on the shelf. I had not read Steinbeck previously but the title caught my eye. I came across this 1975 copy at Nijinski, my favourite secondhand bookstore in Brussels. Published in 1961, The Winter of Our Discontentwas John Steinbeck‘s last novel.
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