Octopus
by:
Frank Norris (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780553106862 (0553106864)
Publisher: Bantam Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Economics,
19th Century
Series: The Epic of the Wheat (#1)
This book merits three stars based on historical interest alone. It's not Norris's best writing by a long shot, that honor belonging to "McTeague" (in this writer's never-humble opinion), and it's further evidence if any was needed that the loss to American letters that Norris's death at 32 was imme...