East of Eden.
(Book)

Facsim. ed., with facsim. dust jacket. Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1952. Includes insert ([2] p. ; 19 x 9 cm.) with new introd.

This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks' and the Hamilton's--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The story of two brothers, Aron is a clean-cut model student, engaged to be married, the pride of his hardworking father. Cal is a rebellious loner, sternly rejected by his father.