Tortilla Flat (PocketBook)

A novelist who is also a true poet' Sunday TimesThis is the story of Danny and of Danny's friends and of Danny's house. It is a story of how these things became one thing so that in Tortilla Flat if you speak of Danny's house you do not mean a structure of wood flaked with old whitewashovergrown with an ancient untrimmed rose of Castile.Steinbeck's first major critical and commercial success, Tortilla Flat is also his funniest novel. In it we meet Danny, who inherits no less than two old houses in the seedy end of Monterey. Here he holds court for his Paisano friends from the valleys, woods and beaches nearbyThrough a series of great adventures and daring deeds, theyform a tight-knit group with a code of honour and a clear purpose in life. Until a stranger, the Pirate, arrives to temp