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Author:
Steinbeck, John
Series:
Cannery Row
Published:
Penguin Publishing Group 1993
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Steinbeck’s tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependant on one another for both physical and emotional survival
A Penguin Classic
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. Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, including longtime friend Ed Ricketts, Steinbeck interweaves the stories of Doc, Dora, Mack and his boys, Lee Chong, and the other characters in this world where only the fittest survive, to create a novel that is at once one of his most humorous and poignant works. In her introduction, Susan Shillinglaw shows how the novel expresses, both in style and theme, much that is essentially Steinbeck: “Scientific detachment, empathy toward the lonely and depressed . . . and, at the darkest level . . . the terror of isolation and nothingness.”
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Street Date:
02/01/1993
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781440630361
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Lexile measure:
930
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John Steinbeck. (1993). Cannery Row. Penguin Publishing Group.

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John Steinbeck. 1993. Cannery Row. Penguin Publishing Group.

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John Steinbeck, Cannery Row. Penguin Publishing Group, 1993.

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John Steinbeck. Cannery Row. Penguin Publishing Group, 1993.

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