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Book Review of Tortilla Flat

Tortilla Flat
Tortilla Flat
Author: John Steinbeck
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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I reread this last year for the first time in 45 years, and experienced the perhaps familiar feeling of meeting an old friend who has changed in the interim -- when actually I'm the one who's changed. Give Steinbeck a chance, he can write circles around most writers of today -- too bad the Salinas Public Library withdrew their support for their most famous son! --from a native Bay Area Californian who's glad he left 23 years ago...