<Tr> <Th> OCLC </Th> <Td> 289946 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Dewey Decimal </Th> <Td> 813.52 </Td> </Tr> <P> The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939 . The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962 . </P> <P> Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industry changes, and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work . Due to their nearly hopeless situation, and in part because they are trapped in the Dust Bowl, the Joads set out for California . Along with thousands of other "Okies", they seek jobs, land, dignity, and a future . </P>

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