East of Eden (Netflix Tie-In)($20.00Value)

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The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years—at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis—now a Netflix limited series, written and executive produced by Zoe Kazan, starring Florence Pugh In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here is a work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love’s absence. Adapted for the 1955 film directed by Elia Kazan introducing James Dean and read by thousands as the book that brought Oprah’s Book Club back, East of Eden has remained a touchstone of American literature for over half a century and will soon be adapted into a Netflix limited series, written and executive produced by Zoe Kazan, starring Florence Pugh. John Steinbeck (1902–1968) was born in Salinas, California. Steinbeck wrote more than twenty-five works of fiction and non-fiction, including Of Mice and Men (1937), a powerful novel focused on the California laboring class, The Grapes of Wrath (1939), winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and East of Eden (1952), an ambitious Cain and Abel family saga of the Salinas Valley. Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.