The Winter of Our Discontent

Synopsis

The final novel of one of america’s most beloved writers—a tale of degeneration, corruption, and spiritual crisisa penguin classic in awarding john steinbeck the 1962 nobel prize in literature, the nobel committee stated that with the winter of our discontent, he had “resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely american. ” ethan allen hawley, the protagonist of steinbeck’s last novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned.