Tortilla Flat

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Tortilla Flat

First edition
Author	John Steinbeck
Cover artist	Ruth Stiles Gannett
Language	English
Publisher	Covici-Friede
Publication date	1935
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
OCLC	576516
Dewey Decimal	813.52
LC Class	PS3537.T3234

Tortilla Flat (1935) is an early John Steinbeck novel set in Monterey, California. The novel was the author's first clear critical and commercial success.

The book portrays a group of 'paisanos'—literally, countrymen—a small band of errant friends enjoying life and wine in the days after the end of World War I.

Tortilla Flat was made into a film in 1942. Steinbeck later returned to some of the panhandling locals of Monterey (though not the Mexican paisanos of the Flat) in his novel Cannery Row (1945).