„There we were on that muddy road, miles from any place. And even the driver didn't know the road. Well, just anything could happen. Anything. There wasn't a house in sight and the rain was starting.”
The bus travels the California backroads. Its passengers are the lost and the lonely, the good and the greedy, the stupid and the scheming, the beautiful and the vicious. As they ride, their dreams and desires clash, their secret selves are revealed, and they become the face in anybody's mirror….For these travelers are Everyman, observed for a few hours by a great writer before they are swept onward, beyond our gaze.
„One fe Steinbeck's best books.” – Newsweek
„Sustained brilliance, complete credibility and vividness, striking, dramatic!” – Saturday Review