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Just re-read this as I couldn't recall much of it from when I read it in high-school. It's a bit like a west coast version of the Walton's with better writing. The novel itself doesn't have a real strong storyline so my youngerself was not very impressed but the individual poratraits that are painted and the times that are sketched are well worth the reading time.
Despite it's being set in depression era California, Steinbeck said in interviews that his Moneterrey years were some of the happiest ...more
Despite it's being set in depression era California, Steinbeck said in interviews that his Moneterrey years were some of the happiest ...more
This was a good book except it has too many insignificant events thrown in randomly.
"Cannery Row ...is a poem, a tink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream."
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