The Red Pony (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)

Steinbeck, John

ISBN 10: 0881030422 / ISBN 13: 9780881030426

Edité par Turtleback Books (edition Rebound), 1993

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The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

N° de réf. du vendeur 0881030422-7-1-13

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Red Pony (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
• Éditeur: Turtleback Books (edition Rebound)
• Date de parution: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0881030422
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780881030426
• Reliure: School & Library Binding
• Édition: Rebound.
• État de l'article: Fair

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Synopsis

Raised on a ranch in northern California, Jody is well-schooled in the hard work and demands of a rancher's life. He is used to the way of horses, too; but nothing has prepared him for the special connection he will forge with Gabilan, a hot-tempered pony his father gives him. With Billy Buck, the hired hand, Jody tends and trains his horse, restlessly anticipating the moment he will sit high upon Gabilan's saddle. But when Gabilan falls ill, Jody discovers there are still lessons he must learn about the ways of nature and, particularly, the ways of man.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Written at a time of profound anxiety caused by the illness of his mother, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck draws on his memories of childhood in these stories about a boy who embodies both the rebellious spirit and the contradictory desire for acceptance of early adolescence. Unlike most coming-of-age stories, the cycle does not end with a hero “matured” by circumstances. As John Seelye writes in his introduction, reversing common interpretations, The Red Pony is imbued with a sense of loss. Jody’s encounters with birth and death express a common theme in Steinbeck’s fiction: They are parts of the ongoing process of life, “resolving” nothing. The Red Pony was central not only to Steinbeck’s emergence as a major American novelist but to the shaping of a distinctly mid twentieth-century genre, opening up a new range of possibilities about the fictional presence of a child’s world. This edition contains an introduction by John Seelye.

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