John Steinbeck The Red Pony - Penguin Classics - 128 pages This cycle of coming-of-age stories tells of a spirited adolescent boy whose encounters with birth and death teach him about loss and profound emptiness, instead of giving him the more conventional hero's pragmatic "maturity." ISBN: 9780140187397 Standard No.: 30036523 LCCN: 94008791 LC Class. No.: PS3537.T3234 Dewey Class. No.: 813.52