{"description": "***The ambitions, dreams, failings, and innermost thoughts of a diverse group of passengers are revealed as they travel aboard a bus along the back roads of California.***\r\n\r\n**In his first novel to follow the publication of his enormous success, The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck\u2019s vision comes to life in this imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus traveling California\u2019s 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.**", "links": [{"url": "https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6522112M/The_wayward_bus", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Borrow this Novel"}], "title": "The Wayward Bus", "covers": [9189461, 14944379, 14912711, 12347936, 12350676, 12449331], "subject_places": ["California"], "first_publish_date": "1947", "key": "/works/OL23194W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL25788A"}}], "subject_times": ["20th Century: 1940s"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["John Steinbeck", "Nobel Prize winner", "Classic", "American", "Fiction", "Literature", "Novel", "Hardcover", "Paperback", "e-book", "Buses", "Bus travel", "Travelers", "sk\u00f6nlitteratur", "California, fiction", "Fiction, general", "Large type books", "Fiction, psychological"], "latest_revision": 20, "revision": 20, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-08T21:50:57.551649"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-08-29T20:11:02.416909"}}