Steel Icarus
we move
...or novel.
Work colleague remembers reading a story long ago but doesn't know the author or title and can't find it again.
He says it was set in the California dustbowl where Steinbeck set a lot of his stirsto but isn't sure Steinbeck is the author. The plot goes something like man and family arrive in California looking for work and a new life. Some new neighbour promises them free food in return for him cutting corn down. Every week a package arrives for them. Transpires when he cut corn people died....and his family die too. So he gets proper mad and cuts down loads of corn, and it turns out to be an allegory for WW2.
Ring any bells with any of you well-read learned types?
Work colleague remembers reading a story long ago but doesn't know the author or title and can't find it again.
He says it was set in the California dustbowl where Steinbeck set a lot of his stirsto but isn't sure Steinbeck is the author. The plot goes something like man and family arrive in California looking for work and a new life. Some new neighbour promises them free food in return for him cutting corn down. Every week a package arrives for them. Transpires when he cut corn people died....and his family die too. So he gets proper mad and cuts down loads of corn, and it turns out to be an allegory for WW2.
Ring any bells with any of you well-read learned types?
