# Zapata

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- Book: [Zapata](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-steinbeck/zapata) ([Zapata.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-steinbeck/zapata.md))
- Authors: [John Steinbeck](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-steinbeck)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-628-3
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2001-07-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A new volume which includes the original screenplay, with its copious director's notes, and the narrative - this has followed on from a previously undiscovered manuscript by Steinbeck being found in the UCLA Research Library - the narrative treatment of the story on which he based his screenplay.