{"product_id":"9780983229643","title":"Steinbeck's Bitter Fruit","description":"In the 1930s, John Steinbeck published \"In Dubious Battle.\" a novel based on union organizing and anti-union sentiment in the rich central valleys of California.\u003cbr\u003e He followed that with a series of articles in The San Francisco News about poverty and starvation among the migrants in California.\u003cbr\u003e In 1939, he published \"The Grapesof Wrath,\" which became an instant American classic and the premier moral vision of the 1930s. The themes were: homelessness; joblessness; poverty; starvation and the greed of the banks.\u003cbr\u003e Now, 73 years later, it is all back. Lost jobs, and lost homes by the hundreds of thousands, poverty, starvation and the greed of the banks.\u003cbr\u003e Steinbeck's vision of the 1930s is with us again,","brand":"New Century Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49836372852976,"sku":"9780983229643","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780983229643","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}