TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steinbeck,John
TI  - The pearl
SN  - 9780140177374
U1  - Fic 
PY  - 1992///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Pearl divers
KW  - Fiction
N2  - For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dreams blind him to the greed that the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors. Baring the fallacy of the American dream-that wealth erases all problems-Steinbeck's classic illustrates our fall from innocence
ER  -