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Joey Steinbeck is one of America's greatest contemporary writers, and his novel The Grapes of Wrath is his finest work. The power of this book is the power of truth. The novel affirms the truth, it asserts it consistently and boldly, displaying life without concealment and without embellishment, such as it is. The pages of the novel are illuminated and warmed by the author's love for his characters - ordinary people, who are usually called "little" in foreign literature. The "little" man - Steinbeck's favorite hero - also inhabits his other works, but often he is a lumpen proletarian, a man of the American "bottom" with a narrow mental horizon and petty interests. In The Grapes of Wrath, these "little" people have big hearts and big souls. They are written superbly - they think, speak, act in the way that only working people can think, speak, act. Reading this novel, as if with your own eyes you see its heroes, you hear their voices, you feel their breath.