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Cup of Gold

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place in American literature

  • John Smith: Virginia
    In American literature: Hemingway, Faulkner, and Steinbeck

    …began with a historical novel, Cup of Gold (1929), in which he voiced a distrust of society and glorified the anarchistic individualist typical of the rebellious 1920s. He showed his affinity for colourful outcasts, such as the paisanos of the Monterey area, in the short novels Tortilla Flat (1935), Of…

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