The Wayward Bus

By: John Steinbeck, Gary Scharnhorst - introduction

Narrated by: Richard Poe

In his first novel to follow the publication of his enormous success, The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck’s vision comes wonderfully to life in this imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus traveling California’s back roads, transporting the lost and the lonely, the good and the greedy, the stupid and the scheming, the beautiful and the vicious away from their shattered dreams and, possibly, toward the promise of the future. This edition features an introduction by Gary Scharnhorst.

Critic reviews

By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Steinbeck knows people

Steinbeck knows people...he deeply understands them. I'm familiar with his knowledge of the male psyche but I was surprised by his appreciation of the female mind as well.

You will like these people

A vivid narrative as only Steinbeck can deliver. Enjoyed from start to finish . Narration was great!!

Very good book

He’s a terrific author. And the narrator is excellent. I enjoyed it very much. I’m glad I bought it

If you like

If you like Steinbeck you will like it typical ending leaves you wondering which way characters choose to go

Beyond Masterful. Magical.

My fourth book ever by John Steinbeck turned out to be even more stunning than the first three combined ( the grapes of wrath, East of Eden, and of mice and men ), and that is saying a lot.
The reader is very talented and gripped my attention.