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Very few writers can bring you to the intimate level of familiarity and comfort with the people and times as Steinbeck. I could see, smell and feel Cannery Row. I have been a fan since The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden when Steinbeck first knocked my socks off.
In Cannery Row, Mack is the leader of a rag tag group of men who really don't mean harm but seem to inadvertently cause it everywhere they go. Much time is spent scheming and planning but not in a terribly malicious way, mostly they foc ...more
In Cannery Row, Mack is the leader of a rag tag group of men who really don't mean harm but seem to inadvertently cause it everywhere they go. Much time is spent scheming and planning but not in a terribly malicious way, mostly they foc ...more
I'm always amazed at just how good Steinbeck is at capturing a certain time and place. Makes me crave getting back to Monterey, but mostly I was wondering if there is any such communities that could be subjected to novelization in 21st Century America. I was left with a nagging sense of loss, even though, in many ways, things are significantly better and not lost at all. The novel was more a snapshot of people and of a time, really lacking much of a plot, but still felt profound and almost mythi
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Best book I have read in a long time!
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