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Clinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own. But after they come to work on a ranch in the Salinas Valley their hopes, like "the best laid schemes o' mice an' men," begin to go awry.John Steinbeck writes of a trip in OF MICE AND MEN: the desperate longing of men for some kind of home - roots that they can believe inq land that they can care for - and the painful search for self= This beautiful, timeless novel speaks of the love that men can feel for each other - one inarticulate, dumb, sometimes violent in his need; the other clever, hopeful, and tied to a responsibility he thinks he doesn't want."A thriller, a gripping tale that you will not set down until is it finished. In sure, raucous, vulgar Americanism, Steinbeck has touched the quick." - The New York Times
Clinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own. But after they come to work on a ranch in the Salinas Valley their hopes, like "the best laid schemes o' mice an' men," begin to go awry.John Steinbeck writes of a trip in OF MICE AND MEN: the desperate longing of men for some kind of home - roots that they can believe inq land that they can care for - and the painful search for self= This beautiful, timeless novel speaks of...
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