Is it one of the great american novels? It certainly feels like it right now. Timshel - “Thou mayest!” It is a call to freedom and ultimate responsibility. Does it fly in today’s preoccupation with brain neurology and biologic determinism? It was the force that gave Samuel Hamilton the ability to look forward to living when he knew that he was just preparing to die. It was the only blessing that Adam could give to Cal. It was the great lesson that Lee pulled from the elders. It is Lee’s book, after Samuel Hamilton dies, as far as I am concerned. There are times that Cal and Aron don’t ring true in their thinking, and I’m not sure what to make of Cathy. But right now it feels heads and shoulders above any other novel I’ve read or listened to, with only a couple of exceptions. A call to a heroic life in fiction.
Author: Steinbeck, John
Date Published: 1952
Length: 25 hr 26 min
Narrator: Poe, Richard
