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The Wayward Bus , The Magnetic Fields

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THE WAYWARD BUS ALBUM INFO

The Wayward Bus album cover Artist: The Magnetic Fields
Album: The Wayward Bus
Release Date: 30 Nov 1991

''The Wayward Bus'' is a novel by United States|American author John Steinbeck, originally published in 1947. The 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 "nigger" and "Jap", and a male character's reference to a young woman's breasts as her "bubs". In the dialogue, each of two female characters (Alice Chicoy and Bernice Pritchard) separately makes explicit reference to her menstrual period—a subject that may have seemed fairly shocking to American readers in 1947.

Steinbeck dedicated this novel to "Gwyn", presumably a reference to his second wife Gwyndolyn Conger. (They divorced 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.

Plot summary
No single character dominates ''The Wayward Bus''.

Track list:

  1. When You Were My Baby
  2. The Saddest Story Ever Told
  3. Lovers From the Moon
  4. Candy
  5. Tokyo a Go-Go
  6. Summer Lies
  7. Old Orchard Beach
  8. Jeremy
  9. Dancing in Your Eyes
  10. Suddenly There Is a Tidal Wave
  11. Railroad Boy
  12. Smoke Signals
  13. You Love to Fail
  14. Kings
  15. Babies Falling
  16. Living in an Abandoned Firehouse With You
  17. Tar-Heel Boy
  18. Falling in Love With the Wolfboy
  19. Josephine
  20. 100,000 Fireflies

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  1. 69 Love Songs (disc 1)
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  3. 69 Love Songs (disc 2)
  4. 69 Love Songs (disc 3)
  5. 69 Love Songs
  6. Holiday
  7. Get Lost
  8. 69 Love Songs Vol. 1
  9. The Wayward Bus / Distant Plastic Trees
  10. 69 Love Songs, Vol. 3
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