Cannery Row
Steinbeck's tough yet charming portrait of people on the margin of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survivalPublished in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Drawing on...
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Steinbeck's tough yet charming portrait of people on the margin of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survivalPublished in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, Steinbeck inter
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 185
Edition language: English
John Steinbeck has done it again other one of my favorite classics my favorite character had to of been hazel and doc :) .filmed review soon
This book was boring. All I could manage was a chapter at a time, pretty much. Steinbeck has a way with words so it wasn't completely bad. The book just describes the setting and characters, there's no plot. Mack and the boys are unemployed but clever, resourceful men who live in the Palace Flophous...
Thanks to my previous read, Changing Tides by Michael Thomas Ford, I decided to re-read this novel. If you liked his works and your last John Steinbeck dates back decades, consider to re-read him. You'll surprised. I almost forgot how much I enjoyed John Steinbeck's prose - clear, strong, ingenious ...
This book is extremely difficult to review. I’m going to talk for a minute, then I’m going to post a pictures, and then I’m going to add a few quotes. Let me begin by saying that this book is almost entirely plot-less. It is a series of vignettes set on the hardscrabble California coast during the...
I watched the film version of On the Road the other night, and while watching it I couldn’t help but compare Sal Paradise, Dean Moriarity and their fellow beats to the inhabitants of Cannery Row, more specifically Mack and the boys from the Palace Flophouse. That is, there aren’t that many similarit...
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