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Cannery Row Mass market paperback - 1993
by Steinbeck, John
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
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Details
- Title Cannery Row
- Author Steinbeck, John
- Binding Mass Market Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 196
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 1993
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0140177388I3N10
- ISBN 9780140177381 / 0140177388
- Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 7.56 x 4.24 x 0.55 in (19.20 x 10.77 x 1.40 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 930
- Library of Congress subjects Love stories, Community life
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
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.