{"title":"John Steinbeck","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Steinbeck nasceu em 1902, em Salinas, na Califórnia. Aluno da Universidade de Stanford, deixou os estudos para se dedicar a empregos variados. Trabalhou em plantações, na construção da rodovia de Big Sur e na indústria de sardinhas, cenários de várias de suas obras. Depois de tentar a vida como escritor freelancer em Nova York, retornou à terra natal. Ganhou popularidade aos 33 anos, com \u003cem\u003eTortilla Flat\u003c\/em\u003e – que abriu caminho para o sucesso de \u003cem\u003eA leste do Éden\u003c\/em\u003e e \u003cem\u003eAs vinhas da ira\u003c\/em\u003e, que recebeu o Pulitzer em 1940. Steinbeck foi correspondente na Segunda Guerra Mundial e na Guerra do Vietnã. Recebeu o Prêmio Nobel de Literatura em 1962 e morreu em 1968.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"as-vinhas-da-ira-edicao-de-bolso","title":"The Grapes of Wrath (Paperback)","description":"\" \u003cp\u003eJohn Steinbeck's masterpiece in paperback. \u003cem\u003e\"The Grapes of Wrath\"\u003c\/em\u003e is the classic that earned John Steinbeck the Pulitzer Prize and remains one of the archetypes of American culture. Also honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature, the author portrayed modern man facing hardship, poverty, and deprivation in a hostile world dominated by victims of competition and social outcasts. The book is strongly marked by its form, realistic descriptions, and reflection on the myth of the American paradise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/em\u003e represents the confrontation between individual and society through the epic story of the Joad family, driven from the cotton fields of Oklahoma by drought to try to survive as seasonal workers on the fruit plantations of California's Salinas Valley. While denouncing the tragedies and scourges of a country weakened by the Great Depression of the 1930s, Steinbeck defends the concept that the isolated individual is worthless, and survival is only possible when there is solidarity among fellow human beings. 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Set in the fertile fields of California's Salinas Valley, this grand and at times brutal book follows the intertwined fates of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose respective generations helplessly relive the fall of Adam and Eve and the deleterious rivalry of Cain and Abel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eComing from the East, Adam Trask arrives in California to work on plantations and raise his family in this new land full of promise. However, the birth of twins, Caleb and Aaron, drives his wife to the brink of madness, leaving Adam to raise their two sons. While Aaron grows up emanating love for all things around him, Caleb remains lonely, shrouded in a mysterious fog, believing his father cares only for his brother. And the eternal tension between the twins is further exacerbated when they fall in love with the same woman. It's a tragedy waiting to happen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1952, in \u003cem\u003eEast of Eden,\u003c\/em\u003e Steinbeck developed his most fascinating characters and explored the most recurring themes of his work: the mystery of identity, the ineffability of love, and the devastating consequences of the absence of affection. A masterpiece of the American author's maturity, this is a powerful and ambitious novel, at once a family saga and a modern transposition of the Book of Genesis.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159571644668,"sku":"9786555874242","price":129.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/1a13bc65f76c04991675a61be20defd8_61cf025c-f062-4aed-8e23-b9dd0486031a.jpg?v=1778323057"},{"product_id":"as-vinhas-da-ira","title":"The Grapes of Wrath","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer and the National Book Award, \u003cem\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/em\u003e , the book that marked the peak of the career of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, becoming a perennial manifesto of the struggle of the excluded, has been published in a revised edition with a new graphic design.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003ePublished in 1939, \u003cem\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/em\u003e marked the pinnacle of Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck's career and remains a social document and a literary landmark. Like the book, the film, which won an Oscar for director John Ford and starred Henry Fonda, has become a classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Ten years after the onset of the Great Depression in 1929, Steinbeck created a lasting manifesto focusing on the struggle of the excluded. \u003cem\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/em\u003e represents the confrontation between individual and society, through the epic story of the Joad family, driven by drought from the cotton fields of Oklahoma to try to survive as seasonal workers on the fruit plantations of California's Salinas Valley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eWinner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, Steinbeck portrayed the plight of modern man facing hardship, poverty, and deprivation in a fierce world dominated by victims of competition and social outcasts. By witnessing human weaknesses in the face of a ruthless economic system, we encounter situations replete with drama. The text's realism, with strong naturalistic overtones, exposes the writer as an experimenter with innovative narrative techniques, rich in symbolism and mythic elaboration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e As American as he is universal, Steinbeck displays in life and art irreducible paradoxes, provoked by the tension between instinct and mind, nature and history, civilization and its discontents. \u003cem\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/em\u003e is proof that men in ordinary places and situations can be exchanged for epic intention and led to immortality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e From the blurb by Pedro Pacífico, Bookster:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e“ \u003cem\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/em\u003e is [...] a read to be taken slowly, appreciating the complexity of the characters and Steinbeck's construction of diverse narrative layers.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159641506044,"sku":"9786555874235","price":84.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/c705f10171b2476b7edfc320ff6b94cf_1c8e71d7-ef8e-444e-8f93-bdfdcba0e951.jpg?v=1778324336"},{"product_id":"a-rua-das-ilusoes-perdidas-edicao-de-bolso","title":"The Street of Lost Illusions (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e \"Paperback edition of the novel by one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, winner of the Nobel Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Street of Lost Illusions\u003c\/em\u003e , in the imaginary city of Monterey, California, a diverse bohemian cast gathers. There live Lee Chong, a Chinese man who is inflexible with his indebted clients; Dora, a madam who runs a brothel frequented by everyone and is the neighborhood's greatest benefactor; Mack and his gang of boys, who work to earn just enough for a few drinks; and Doc, a marine biologist, respected by all and quite generous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The Street of Lost Illusions\u003c\/em\u003e ,\" a novel of extraordinary beauty, with colorful and contradictory characters, is an ode to the simple lives of these individuals, all frequenters of this street of lost illusions. John Steinbeck (1902-1968) established a significant place in American literature as a writer committed to the issues of his country. Working people, ordinary people, and the social dramas surrounding them have always been the subject of his writing. The author became famous for his socially charged writing and the delicacy with which he addressed difficult topics, such as poverty during the 1930s depression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"His interest is always in the downtrodden, the misfits, and the troubled; he relishes the contrast between the simple joy of living and the brutal, cynical desire for money.\" - Excerpt from the presentation of the Nobel Prize in Literature to John Steinbeck, 1962.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159783588092,"sku":"9788577992409","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/9d22aa22a4e5eff1fded12909ab43468_6ed2dc3b-ee80-459f-8416-808437dcd769.jpg?v=1778326035"},{"product_id":"viajando-com-charley","title":"Traveling with Charley","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eNonfiction work by the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e Author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize (1940) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1962), John Steinbeck narrates the adventures he experienced alongside his French poodle, Charley, as he traveled across the United States in his Rocinante pickup truck in 1960.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eConsidered one of the writer's finest works, \u003ci\u003eTraveling with Charley\u003c\/i\u003e is filled with personal impressions, conversations with residents of various cities, and unusual situations. 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Pérolas essas que outrora trouxeram grande riqueza aos reis da Espanha e agora fornecem a Kino, Juana e seu filho pequeno uma subsistência escassa.\u003c\/p\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003eEm um dia como qualquer outro, Kino emerge do mar com uma pérola tão grande quanto um ovo de gaivota, “tão perfeita quanto a lua\". 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Entretanto, de certa maneira, eles construíram uma família, juntos, apesar da solidão e da alienação. Trabalhadores braçais dos campos poeirentos da Califórnia, eles se viram como podem, com uma mão na frente e outra atrás. Mas George e Lennie têm um plano: serem donos de uns alqueires de terra e de uma choupana que possam chamar de sua.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAinda que a impotência da classe trabalhadora seja um tema recorrente na obra de John Steinbeck do fim da década de 1930, ele estreita o foco ao escrever \u003cem\u003eRatos e homens\u003c\/em\u003e – cujo título toma emprestado de um verso do poema “To a Mouse”, de Robert Burns –, criando o retrato íntimo de dois homens que encaram um mundo marcado por tirania mesquinha, mal-entendidos, inveja e indiferença. 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