Nearly everything I have is in it, and it is not full.
In the book’s opening dedication, addressed to Pascal Covici (Pat), a book publisher and editor with whom he worked closely, he wrote: “Well, here’s your box. Steinbeck intended East of Eden to be his defining opus. Alongside an exceptional ability to describe the terror and beauty of American landscapes and seasons, Steinbeck took human behaviours, all the motives and unspoken things that linger below the surface of our consciousness, and raised them into plain sight. He also loved language - which are all ingredients that, I reckon, a great novelist make. Steinbeck understood how history plays out and repeats itself, or, in other words, he understood stories, and people, what they say and do, and the gulfs in between.
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