Characters in this novel dig up a concrete survey marker during the Saint Andrew's Eve hunt when buried treasure was legendarily supposed to glow through the earth.
Characters in this novel dig up a concrete survey marker during the Saint Andrew's Eve hunt when buried treasure was legendarily supposed to glow through the earth. The end of this novel features a legendary bash simply called "The Party" in which the protagonist sleeps with every woman in the town and gets so drunk that he challenges the whole world to a fiÂght charging off into the night only to fall to his death in a forty-foot gulch. The protagonist buys a vacuum cleaner as a giftft for Sweets Ramirez even though she doesn't have electricity. One character lives in a chicken coop with Âfive dogs gathering fiÂrewood for a quarter a day, and the protagonist beats up Big Joe Portagee for stealing 1007 quarters that the Pirate was saving to buy a golden candlestick for the church of Saint Francis. The characters of this novel constantly negotiate with winemerchant Mr. Torrelli, and the protagonist's friends Pilon and Pablo never pay their monthly rent while living in a house of "paisanos" outside Monterey. For 10 points, name this Steinbeck novel beginning when Danny inherits two houses in the titular California region.
Characters in this novel dig up a concrete survey marker during the Saint Andrew's Eve hunt when buried treasure was legendarily supposed to glow through the earth.
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