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Title: John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts: The Shaping of a Novelist by Richard Astro ISBN: 0-9721974-0-0 Publisher: Western Flyer Publishing Pub. Date: 09 September, 2002 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $19.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful insight to a remarkable friendship.
Comment: I picked this long out of print book up at the Monterey Aquarium - kudos to Western Flyer Publishing for bringing this fantastic book back.

There are two "bibles" for people who want to know about John Steinbeck - Jackson Benson's biography and this one. Personally, I prefer this one because it covers the golden age of Steinbeck and his friendship with marine biologist, philosopher and brilliant mind, Ed Ricketts.

If you've read Cannery Row and Grapes of Wrath (among others), you've gotten a glimpse of Ed RIcketts. In Richard Astro's book, you get the "toto-picture" of the man. Steinbeck's literature has been called simple. Yeah, simple as a Zen painting. Richard Astro shows how the collective (and at times drastically different) philosophies of these two men spawned one to create some of the greatest stories ever told. Stories that can be read and appreciated by a kid in middle school and then upon rereading, it is discovered how many layers lie beneath the tightly plotted tales. Astro's book digs deep too and is a valuable, readible and thought provoking journey into a remarkable friendship.

Rating: 5
Summary: Informative!
Comment: This was wonderful. So insightful to learn about the man behind the stories.

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