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• he remained a sojourner, always careful to choose home sites that were increasingly isolated from the town’s center, as though the omniscient tenor of his writing in the late 1930s might be compromised if he approached too closely to the mainstream of suburban society.
• the most significant part of his life during the Los Gatos era was directed inward toward personal and psychological vistas.
• so intent was he on exposing the enormous cultural contradictions inherent in his fabled native state.
• he and his wife, Carol, were both considered to be radical bohemians;
• little indication of the depth, complexity, and intensity of Steinbeck’s inner life during his years of residency there.