All of Denmark was at his feet
John Sutherland, 12 May 1994
John Steinbeck: A Biography
by Jay Parini.
Heinemann, 605 pp., £20, March 1994,0 434 57492 9 Show More
by Jay Parini.
Heinemann, 605 pp., £20, March 1994,
“... Down was originally written for a branch of the OSS, the Foreign Information Service, and is (as Paul Fussell notes in Writing in Wartime) ‘virtually indistinguishable from the emissions of the Office of War Information’. Bombs Away was written for the Army Air Corps. In the scoundrel time, after the war, Steinbeck went along with the inquisitions ... ”