Tag: nobel prize

The only character I cared about in the "Grapes of Wrath"--and I use the word "care" quite loosely here--was the grandmother. In a book that had no sense of direction--from the beginning, through the middle and right to the end--the demise of the grandmother was the one certainty. Because grandma's death was quite obviously going

"The Grapes of Wrath" tells a story of an impoverished family moving from the East Coast to the West Coast in a car during the Great Depression.

It won the Nobel Prize for Literature and is considered by many to be the greatest American novel.

This

I don't get it.  Not in the way I don't get art or in the way I didn't get Modern Algebra.  I can't even comprehend what it is that I need to comprehend.  I am so confused, for the first time in my life, I am at a loss for words.

Barack Obama won the Nobel