Word: twentyish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WITH a sympathetic understanding of his characters that makes them vibrantly alive, John Steinbeck has created a book of sweeping movement and feeling. The Joads of Oklahoma start with "the little fellas Ruthie an' Winfiel'", and 'teenish Al, and Rose-of-Sharon and husband Connie, and twentyish Tom and Noah; then it goes through Ma, Pa, and Uncle John to Granma and Granpa. They are individuals, but only in an emotional way; their natures are interesting for their hearts and their spirit, not their minds...
...cockeyed novel so much is clear from the start. And his master, Sir John, was the son of a courtly rake whose adventures in the Edwardian era had burdened a number of titled matrons with offspring of discreetly doubtful parentage. One of the doubtful ones was Diana Haddon, now twentyish and one of London's brightest young things, at the moment dallying innocently with Sir John's young affections. There was also the startling Lady Mors, whose husband thought he was a firecracker and so lived in constant fear of going off. It was Lady Mors...