Phil in SF reviewed Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Portrait of the poor as hapless comedic ne'er-do-wells
4 stars
Steinbeck's prose is so amazingly well-crafted. It's interesting without being flowery.
Paperback, 156 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 1974 by Pan Books.
Cannery Row is a novel by American author John Steinbeck, published in 1945. It is set during the Great Depression in Monterey, California, on a street lined with sardine canneries that is known as Cannery Row. The story revolves around the people living there. Steinbeck revisited these characters and this milieu nine years later in his novel Sweet Thursday.
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Steinbeck's prose is so amazingly well-crafted. It's interesting without being flowery.