Contributions

  • Michael Ian Kaye - Cover Design
  • Ross MacDonald - Cover Art and Illustrations

Publication

1993 - Penguin Books, New York, USA

Language

English

Word Count

26750 words, Guess

Page Count

107 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 5 more
  • Goodreads 40698
  • LibraryThing 3657
  • OCLC Control Number 1003109997
  • Better World Books 9780140177398
  • Open Library OL9304093M

Classifications

  • LCC PS3537.T3234

First Sentence

A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green.

Description

They are an unlikely pair: George is “small and quick and dark of face”; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a “family,” clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California’s dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations of a flirtatious woman, nor predict the consequences of Lennie’s unswerving obedience to the things George taught him. --back cover

Subjects

Topics

Men Roman Drama Fiction Cowboys

Places

Soledad CA California Salinas River Valley Salinas, Vallée du (Calif.) Salinas River Valley (Calif.) Salinas, Valle del Río (California)

People

Lennie Small George Milton

Times

1930s 20th century

Other Editions

Man reading a book and lounging on a couch