Oprah's classic pick.For September: Novelist Steinbeck Reviving the Oprah Book Club in a classics-only version in May, Oprah Winfrey “Oprah” redirects here. For the show, see The Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is the American multiple-Emmy Award winning host of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest-rated talk show in television history. declared, "My mission is to make this the biggest book club in the world and get people reading again." (See BIBR BIBR Bay Islands Beach Resort (Roatan, Honduras) BIBR Backward Indicator Bit Received , July/August 2003.) The Oprah clubs revival pick is, John Steinbecks three-generation, Cain-and-Abel saga East of Eden East of Eden is a novel by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, published in September 1952. Often described as Steinbeck's most ambitious novel, East of Eden (Penguin USA, June 2003, $16, ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0-142-00423-5), which has been in print continuously since 1952, and "has it all!" she says. "Sex, murder, suicide, infidelity, greed, blackmail, nasty manipulation: no subject is taboo." Yahoo and the Associated Press quote her: "It's not like Shakespeare, or even Faulkner; it's reader friendly." On her site, she gushes: "John Steinbeck--wherever he is in the spirit world is very happy today." The new Oprah Book Club segment airs in September |
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