The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck is $1.99 at Amazon US.
His last ovel, it's a break from the usual Steinbeck, it's about a New England shopkeeper. I read it decades ago. Memories are hazy, but I remember really enjoying it.
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Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck’s last novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With Ethan no longer a member of Long Island’s aristocratic class, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards. Set in Steinbeck’s contemporary 1960 America, the novel explores the tenuous line between private and public honesty, and today ranks alongside his most acclaimed works of penetrating insight into the American condition.
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