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Title: An opening into the darkest places of the heart.
Review: How does Steinbeck gain entrance into the souls of people, to view what they are really like? I am a man of forty, and I literally wept at the wonder of this novel. To see that others have the same thoughts, feelings, yearnings as myself even from a half century ago is stunning. I didn't want this book to end because I had become part of the family, and you never want the family to end. It amazes me how Steinbeck can write deeply, but his writing is readable. He really just sucks you into his world, you feel as though you are there around the table, discussing the Hebrew word, looking out the house into the valley, or staring at the house where the "circus" is going on. I enjoy many other authors, but I can't think of any that can draw you into their world as completely as John Steinbeck, and East of Eden, to me, is the apex of his work.
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