false <![CDATA[Cannery Row]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185149708m/680003.jpg 4799 42 Cannery Row takes place on a small street lined with sardine fisheries in Monterey known as Cannery Row. It revolves around the people living there during the Great Depression: Lee Chong, the local grocer; Doc, a marine biologist based on Steinbeck's friend Ed Ricketts; and Mack, the leader of a group of bums. It is an attempt to capture the feeling and people of a place, the cannery district of Monterey, California, which is populated by a mix of those down on their luck and those who choose for other reasons not to live "up the hill" in the more respectable area of town. 824028 1945 Cannery Row (Centennial Edition) total:12739|5:3927|4:5038|3:3050|2:606|1:118| 12739 50267 15865 856 5 23 false false Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 15:09:10 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 09:54:05 -0700 2009 Cannery Row plays funny tricks on its readers; that is, it enjoys nothing more than lulling them into a sort of pleasant complacency -- a whistling familiarity with the terrain of Literature with capital L -- and then it serves up a steel-toe boot (although not unaffectionately) straig...more...]]> 5 28 false false Fri Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 20:12:14 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 23:30:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 8 false false Thu May 28 13:47:01 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 14:49:32 -0700 2009 cannery row might inspire. his response was... um... deranged? check it:


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"Hazel picke up a nobbly purplish starfish from the bottom of the pool and popped it into his nearlyu full gunny sack. " I wonder what they do with them' he said.

"Do with what?" Doc asked
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Well Cannary Row reminds me of a time that never really existed in my life but should have cause it would have been freakin great.

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