| I finished Rabbit Redux a little while ago, and it is still a book to recommend. Though read Rabbit, Run, first as it's the first in the series. Excellent, observational fiction with a journalistic feel. So my next recommendation is a book I read last year, but can't leave it un-recommended any longer. It's John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath". It's an absolute classic and will leave you emotionally shredded, especially when read in today's climate of financial fear. I won't go into too much detail, but just to say that The Grapes of Wrath covers the American depression of the 1930s and focuses on the Joad family as they join the great migration from East to West in search of a livelihood, food and dignity. If you're after happy endings, steer clear of this one. It is grippingly honest and does not pull any punches. You'll read this, and realise that the human race never seems to learn much... |















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