Steinbeck, John <br/><br/>
Of mice and men 
John Steinbeck 
 - New York :   Penguin Books,   1993. 
 - 105 pages :  21 cm. 
<br/><br/> They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations of a flirtatious woman, nor predict the consequences of Lennie's unswerving obedience to the things George taught him 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780141185101 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cowboys -- California -- Salinas River Valley -- Fiction.<br/>Salinas River Valley (Calif.) -- Fiction.<br/>Psychological fiction<br/>Western stories<br/>Classic fiction
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813.52  / STE