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malaise

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Tue Apr 15, 2014, 05:27 AM Apr 2014

Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath was published 75 years ago yesterday - Quiz [View all]

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/picture/2014/apr/14/john-steinbeck-dorothea-lange-photography
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The 75th anniversary of the publication of The Grapes of Wrath is marked on 14 April 2014. The photography of Dorothea Lange is as closely associated with American farmers' struggle against drought and dust in the Depression era as Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize winning novel. Lange was commissioned by the US Farm Security Administration to document the lives of farming families during 1930s and her stirring images helped to publicise the sharecroppers' struggle to survive



http://www.theguardian.com/books/quiz/2014/apr/11/grapes-of-wrath-john-steinbeck-quiz
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