The Canyons combines the naturalism of Frank Norris' McTeague with the modernist techniques of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath , yielding a work of historical noir that Howard Zinn called an ingenious blending of fact and fiction.
Based on the Colorado coalfield war of 1913-14, The Canyons borrows the zeitgeist of a century ago to allegorize contemporary conditions of national, populist ferment.
The Canyons unfolds through the perspective.
