{"product_id":"the-red-pony","title":"The Red Pony","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Steinbeck. Used. Good condition, crease across the front and back cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten at a time of profound anxiety caused by the illness of his mother, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck draws on his memories of childhood in these stories about a boy who embodies both the rebellious spirit and the contradictory desire for acceptance of early adolescence. Unlike most coming-of-age stories, the cycle does not end with a hero “matured” by circumstances. As John Seelye writes in his introduction, reversing common interpretations, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe Red Pony\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis imbued with a sense of loss. Jody’s encounters with birth and death express a common theme in Steinbeck’s fiction: They are parts of the ongoing process of life, “resolving” nothing. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe Red Pony\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was central not only to Steinbeck’s emergence as a major American novelist but to the shaping of a distinctly mid twentieth-century genre, opening up a new range of possibilities about the fictional presence of a child’s world. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Books \u0026 Brew","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67526676742317,"sku":null,"price":5.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/booksandbrew.net\/products\/the-red-pony","provider":"Books And Brew","version":"1.0","type":"link"}