East of Eden and the raw fight for

and the raw fight for survival

the second volume in The Passenger series

John Cheever pens a story about a boy's troubled relationship with his father and the national pastime

The lived experiences of her patients are the gripping fabric of her narrative

John Updike

East of Eden and the raw fight forA masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America's most enduring authors, in a deluxe Centennial edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families the Trasks and the Hamiltons