With a libretto by Mr. Floyd based on the Steinbeck novel, it offers his most powerful, sophisticated and effective score.

Mr. Foote sat down and reread the Steinbeck novel.

Tortilla Flat, a 1935 Steinbeck novel.

A company member, Frank Galati, adapted the play from the Steinbeck novel and directed it.

That's the stuff of a Steinbeck novel, son or father.

When dozens of these compressed life stories are read in a row, they amass the moral force of a Steinbeck novel.

It was a childhood that could come right out of a gritty Steinbeck novel.

Mr. Carroll first became aware of the editions four or five years ago when he found a Steinbeck novel in an antiquarian bookstore in California.

The director had assembled the lyrics from the words of the Steinbeck novel.

(She also appeared in the 1955 film based on the Steinbeck novel "East of Eden," but that is another story.)