What's the book 'Wayward Bus' about?

Question

I want to read it, but before I do I want to know what it's about. This is for pleasure by the way.

Answer 1

The Wayward Bus, by John Steinbeck, is one of Steinbeck's lesser novels, but its clear writing and solid character delineation testify that second-rank Steinbeck is still very good writing indeed.

Originally published in 1947, this novel contains several references to the recent Second World War (such as a wall-chart of mandatory pricing guidelines, issued by the Office of Price Administration) and America's attempts to adjust to life in the immediate postwar era. The colloquial speech of the characters is firmly of their time and place, including casual use of epithets like "******" and "Jap", and a male character's reference to a young woman's breasts as her "bubs".

Steinbeck dedicated this novel to "Gwyn", presumably a reference to his second wife Gwyndolyn Conger. (Sadly, they would divorce less than a year after The Wayward Bus was published.) The novel's epigraph is a passage from Everyman, with its archaic English intact; the quotation refers to the transitory nature of humanity.

Although considered one of Steinbeck's weaker novels, at the time of its original publication The Wayward Bus was financially more successful than any of his previous works.

Answer 2

just read it
critics always critize if you undersatnd what i mean
is a very entertaing book about a bus, its driver and the passengers
you shall not be bored