The protagonist of this novel has a son who is writing an essay entitled "Why I Love America" and who plagiarizes from speeches by Henry Clay and Abraham Lincoln to finish the assignment.
The protagonist of this novel has a son who is writing an essay entitled "Why I Love America" and who plagiarizes from speeches by Henry Clay and Abraham Lincoln to finish the assignment. His sexually precocious daughter, Ellen, is unable to write the same essay and is seemingly a precursor to Margie-Young Hunt, the town seductress. Several other citizens of the fictitious New Baytown are introduced, though the focus is on the disintegrating life of grocery store clerk Ethan Allen Hawley. Surprisingly not set in and around Salinas Valley, FTP, identify this John Steinbeck work whose name is drawn from a line in Shakespeare's Richard III.
The protagonist of this novel has a son who is writing an essay entitled "Why I Love America" and who plagiarizes from speeches by Henry Clay and Abraham Lincoln to finish the assignment.
The {Winter of Our Discontent}