The Pearl - John Steinbeck

If you get what you want it may well ruin your life and inevitably lead to despair and misery.  This story is excellent but is pretty depressing.  It is about a poor Mexican fisherman who finds a huge pearl in an oyster and thinks he will be able to sell it and change his life for the better.  As you might expect things do not work out well and everybody and everything turns against him.  You get the feeling that Steinbeck feels that his life may not have got entirely better since his books started selling by the boat load.  Very good  little book.


7/10