TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steinbeck,John
TI  - Of mice and men
SN  - 0140177396
AV  - PS3537.T3234 O2 1993
U1  - Fic 
PY  - 1993///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Cowboys
KW  - California
KW  - Salinas River Valley
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Men
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Migrant labor
KW  - Ranch life
KW  - Mentally handicapped
KW  - Salinas River Valley (Calif.)
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - Western stories
KW  - gsafd
N2  - "They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of lonelinss and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations of a flirtatious woman, nor predict the consequences of Lennie's unswerving obedience to the things George taught him"--
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