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Cannery Row
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
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Start date
March 1, 2007
Finish date
March 1, 2007
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I loved this book. It's a sad book but the characters are so rich and wonderful.…more

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Nicholas George
Oct 25, 2016 rated it it was amazing
This brief tale of the assorted misfits and outcasts living in Monterey's fish packing district in the 1940s has a deceptive grace. On the surface it is an assortment of seemingly innocuous anecdotes, yet the collectively they form a strangely uplifting portrait of a group of people whom we might otherwise disdain--thieves, whores, lowlifes--whose humanity, in Steinbeck's hands, is tragically beautiful. ...more
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