Zapata
Author: John Steinbeck
A new volume which includes the original screenplay, with its copious director’s notes, and the narrative – this has followed on from a previously undiscovered manuscript by Steinbeck being found in the UCLA Research Library – the narrative treatment of the story on which he based his screenplay…..Read More
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