The Ghost of Tom Joad guitar work and the lyrics on many of the tracks are a somber reflection of life in the mid-1990s in America and Mexico. The character of Tom Joad entered the American consciousness in John Steinbeck’s 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Grapes of Wrath", set against the economic hardships of the Great Depression. This spawned a film version starring Henry Fonda, which in turn inspired folk singer Woody Guthrie to pen "The Ballad of Tom Joad". The album's release was followed by Springsteen's solo acoustic Ghost of Tom Joad Tour, which ran from 1995 to 1997 and consisted of mostly small
The Family Frying Pan shabbat dinner, using the frying pan, which is possessed of a Russian Soul. Chaucer Canterbury Tales The Family Frying Pan The Family Frying Pan is a fixup novel written by Bryce Courtenay. It was first published in 1997, then re-written and reissued in 2001. The novel was originally published as a series of semi-linked short stories. It received various changes and a back story and was re-published as such. The author claims that the main character is heavily based on his first wife's grandmother. Set initially in Tsarist Russia, the novel tells of Sara Moses, always known as 'Mrs Moses'.