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Amid the honky-tonks and sardine canneries of Monterey, California, a motley band forms a colorful—even idyllic—world of its own. Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Henry the painter sorts through junk lots for pieces of wood to incorporate into the boat he is building, while the girls from Dora Flood's bordello venture out now and then to enjoy a bit of sunshine. Lee Chong stocks his grocery with almost anything a man could want, and Doc, a young marine biologist who ministers to sick puppies and unhappy souls, unexpectedly finds true love. Cannery Row is just a few blocks long, but the story it harbors is suffused with warmth, understanding, and a great fund of human values. First published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is—both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. John Steinbeck draws on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, and interweaves their stories in this world where only the fittest survive—creating what is at once one of his most humorous and poignant works. In Cannery Row, John Steinbeck returns to the setting of Tortilla Flat to create another evocative portrait of life as it is lived by those who unabashedly put the highest value on the intangibles—human warmth, camaraderie, and love. "Steinbeck has compounded a bitter and uproariously funny commentary on the futility of human aspiration and the barrenness of existence...an extraordinary mixture of wild laughter and searing pain." — The New York Herald Tribune "It's one of the most thoroughly enjoyable and delicious books you'll ever have the fortune to read." — Chicago Sun Times "Everything is always somehow overlaid with laughter, the special kind of laughter and contentment with one's lot, however humble, that only John Steinbeck can put into words....John Steinbeck sees his characters with deep compassion as well as amusement." — Chicago Sunday Tribune
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- Title Cannery Row
- Author John Steinbeck
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition Later Printing
- Pages 123
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bantam Books, New York
- Date November 1, 1982
- ISBN 9780553278231 / 0553278231
- Weight 0.17 lbs (0.08 kg)
- Dimensions 6.9 x 4.3 x 0.5 in (17.53 x 10.92 x 1.27 cm)
- Reading level 930
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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New York: Bantam Books, 1986. 48th Printing . Mass Market. Near Fine. 123 Pages.August 1988 Bantam release. Less than a dozen pages have some underlining. Inside back cover is filled with scribblings dated 9-5-92. Beyond that is a very tight original book with glossy covers. A tender and bawdy fable of some gaily disreputable avoiders of work, drunks, fancy ladies, benign bums and social-outcast philosophers, including: Dora, a great big woman with flaming orange hair and a taste for Nile green evening dresses, who keeps an honest one-price house. Hazel, whose mother was too tired to notice his sex when she named him, and who didn't pay enough attention in reform school to learn viciousness and criminality. Mary Talbot, a lovely young thing whose great-grandmother had been burned as a witch, and who gave tea parties for the neighborhood cats. Eddie, the understudy bartender who believed that a man got just as drunk on half a glass as on a whole one if he was in the mood to get drunk at all. And…
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