One of Steinbeck’s best, but too short! Again Steinbeck draws a picture of a time and place that will remain a vivid portrait. This time it is a derelict area in Monterey, California. Probably the 1920s, although it is not said. There are T-Fords, it is on this I am guessing. Steinbeck was from Sali...
Cannery Row is the fourth Steinbeck book I have read so far, and it certainly wont be the last. With each one I have read I have come to like his writing more and more. He has a way of being descriptive enough to create an interesting and tangible world of sights and smells and sounds without loosin...
When life isn't repetitive for the characters in Cannery Row, it is brutish, short, and/or filled with arbitrary misfortunes. Most have no idea how to deal with it. So they mostly don't. Yet they still manage to find happiness in companionship, simple living, and embracing who they are at heart. Can...
The one thing I love about Steinbeck’s writing is his honesty. There’s a true natural quality to his storytelling, which in turn, makes his characters so compelling. The characters in Cannery Row aren’t heroes, they’re just ordinary people. Yet their stories are told with a simple frankness that’s p...
I finished listening to an audiobook edition of this novel this morning and since then I’ve been wondering how I’d find the words to say how much I love it. Steinbeck was not on my high school English syllabus, not on the syllabus when I was at university and for the past thirty years has been one o...
Beautifully written and virtually plotless, 'Cannery Row' was an excellent car-read to while away the long trip to Maine.Unlike other notable books by Steinbeck the hopelessness here is not overwhelming and the anger is not present. People abide. Or they don't. More than one case is given of someone...
Although there are quit a few characters in this story the two main characters for me were Doc and Mack. They both have some depth, some insight the others don’t have.The story starts with Lee Chong. Through his grocery store the reader is drawn into the little town full of ordinary and not ...
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