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| Author: John Steinbeck |
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Product Summary
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN-10: 0808519220
ISBN-13: 9780808519225
Buy.com Sku: 30920888
Publish Date: 9/3/2007
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 7H x 4.25L x 0.75T
Pages:
196
Age Range:
NA
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Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. (from the first line)
| For use in schools and libraries only. Vividly depicts the colorful, sometimes disreputable, inhabitants of a run-down area in Monterey, California. |
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Vividly depicts the colorful, sometimes disreputable, inhabitants of a run-down area in Monterey, California. |
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Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Steinbeck's 1945 condemnation of the attitudes toward the conditions endured by California migrant workers is a sequel to his novel on the same subject, SWEET THURSDAY--both more light-hearted than his masterpiece, THE GRAPES OF WRATH.
Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Steinbeck's 1945 condemnation of the attitudes toward the conditions endured by California migrant workers is a sequel to his novel on the same subject, SWEET THURSDAY--both more light-hearted than his masterpiece, THE GRAPES OF WRATH.
Author Bio
John Steinbeck
Growing up in California, Steinbeck witnessed firsthand the struggles of migrant workers that he wrote about so eloquently in his fiction. He attended Stanford University, studying marine biology but never finishing his degree. All his fiction deals with the plight of the common man and his outrage at injustice and oppression. He is best remembered for THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1939), which led to much-needed agricultural reform and has been compared to UNCLE TOM'S CABIN in terms of its impact. In addition to writing novels, Steinbeck was also a successful screenwriter. Despite the strong sense of place in his California fiction, he lived toward the end of his life in New York City, saying, "If you have lived in New York, no place else is good enough." He was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1962.
