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Burning Bright

John Steinbeck

Form
Form Novella
Year
Year 1950
Pages
Pages 120

The trapeze rigging of the first act is gone by the second, replaced by a farm; by the third, a ship at sea. The same four people stand in each: Joe Saul, his young wife Mordeen, the younger man Victor, and Friend Ed, keeping their names and their wounds while the world around them is swapped out.

every man is father to all children and every child must have all men as father
Burning Bright, John Steinbeck

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