California--Salinas River Valley, Male Friendship, Manners and Customs, People with Mental Disabilities, Film Adaptations 

Traveling across America in search of who you are - not they do it on cycles, in cars, by bus or in the time-honored tradition of foot and thumb. The wanderers of today may wear their hair long and speak a different jargon, but their trip is one that men (and women) have taken for as long as this country has been pushing at its frontiers.

John Steinbeck writes of such a trip in Of Mice and Men: the desperate longing of men for some kind of home - roots that they can believe in, land that they can care for - and the painful search for self. This beautiful, timeless novel speaks of the love that men can feel for each other - one inarticulate, dumb, sometimes violent in his need; the other clever, hopeful, and tied to a responsibility he thinks he doesn't want.

"A thriller, a gripping tale that you will not set down until is it finished. In sure, raucous, vulgar Americanism, Steinbeck has touched the quick." - The New York Times

Taken from the back cover.