The Winter of Our Discontent; John Steinbeck

Publisher: The Viking Press Edition:First Edition Year: 1961 Description: NF, 311 pp.; The Viking Press First Edition 1961; edition with blue boards viking ship centered on front binding with silver title and author on spine; The Winter of Our Discontent is John Steinbeck's last novel. It is the story of Ethan Allen Hawley who is the clerk in a grocery store he used to own and his wife Mary Hawley, his son Allen, his daughter Ellen, and Margie Young-Hunt the young woman of his desires all of which are creating anxiety and depression on his part because he is unable to fullfill their material and emotional needs. Made into a Hollywood movie (1983) directed by Waris Hussein starring Donald Sutherland as Ethan Hawley, Teri Garr as his wife Mary, Kirk Brennan as his son Allen, Amanita Hyldahl as his daughter Ellen and Tuesday Weld as the young flirt who gains his attentions. no dj Author: John Steinbeck