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fishwax

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4. Definitely a great book -- I've known many Oklahomans who hated it

Reply to yesphan (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 13, 2011, 06:57 PM

Dec 2011

because they felt the book mistreated Oklahomans, but I think Steinbeck's heart was clearly with the Okie. He never lived in Oklahoma (AFAIK, he'd never even been there when he wrote the book, and so some of his descriptions are a bit off), but his grandparents, IIRC, were from there.

And, of course, it has one of the great monologues in American literature:

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Oklahoma Literature -- what are your favorite books about Oklahoma? [View all] fishwax Dec 2011 OP

The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) yesphan Dec 2011 #1

Definitely a great book -- I've known many Oklahomans who hated it fishwax Dec 2011 #4

Michael Wallis, Billie Letts OKNancy Dec 2011 #2

I loved Where the Heart Is fishwax Dec 2011 #3

The Wallis book is titled OKNancy Dec 2011 #5

Fire in Beulah Z_I_Peevey Dec 2011 #6