East of Eden

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Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.
作者简介：
David Wyatt teaches English at the University of Mayrland,where he was named Distinguished scholar-Teacher in 1998.He has edited the Cambridge New Essays on "The Grapes of Wrath'and has published two books about Steimbeck's California,the Fall into Eden,in 1986,and Five Fires:Race Catastrophe,and the shaping of California,in 1997.