Quel fantastico giovedì
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788804455684 (8804455683)
Publish date: January 1st 1999
Publisher: Mondadori (Medusa, 118)
Pages no: 272
Edition language: Italian
John Steinbeck found something funny in Monterey, California. The three novels he set in the city make up the author's three most recognized comedies (his only comedies, I believe, with the exception of the satirical ...Pippin IV). In Sweet Thursday, Steinbeck returns to the characters and setting o...
Since listening to an audiobook edition of Cannery Row earlier this year and falling in love with both the characters and Steinbeck's writing, I've looked forward to reading this sequel. It's set about ten years after the events of Cannery Row. Doc has returned from army service to his work at the W...
Sequel to 'Cannery Row' this may be, but this is an entirely different book that we're dealing with. What I missed most in 'Sweet Thursday' that had been present in 'Cannery Row' were the beautiful passages of nature writing. We still have Doc visiting the tidal fields, but there's no magic anymore....
When I think of romantic comedies, the last author I think of is John Steinbeck. Yet Sweet Thursday is just that, a romantic comedy. Its predecessor, Cannery Row certainly had humorous intentions yet Steinbeck's style of realism and cynicism mixed with a reluctant admiration for his fellow man does ...
"Cannery Row" is my favorite John Steinbeck novel. So, when I found out about the sequel, "Sweet Thursday," I immediately added it to my reading list."Sweet Thursday" takes readers back to the familiar denizens of Cannery Row. In this book, Mack and Hazel, two of the fellows from the Palace Flopho...
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