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Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
from Penguin (Non-Classics)

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• An All American Gem
  Just savor it: "During the millennia that frogs and men have lived in the same world, it is probable that men have hunted frogs. And during that time a pattern of hunt and parry has developed. The man with net or bow or lance or gun creeps noiselessly, as he thinks, toward the frog. The pattern requires that the frog sit still, sit very still and wait. The rules of the game require the frog to wait until the final flicker of a second, when the net is descending, when the lance is in the air, when the finger... more info

• Cannery Row: The Great Wistful Little Fishing Town
  John Steinbeck's Cannery Row really makes literary history as a book of rare type and content.Though as similarly put by Steinbeck at the beginning of this book, it's stories come and go like tidal waves -all different, some to come back and some not; I have to say it was interesting and made it hard to pin-point any main characters of the book. (In my opinion the main characters were Mac & the boys and Doc -perhaps Mr. Lee.)
  Comparatively with some of Steinbeck's other work, like Of Mice of Men,... more info

• A Small Social Gathering
  Cannery Row is a rundown street in Monterey, California - one that, presumably, takes its name from the sardine canneries based there. It's home to much more besides, though - honky-tonks, grocery-stores, flop-houses and whorehouses, even a laboratory...and a whole host of likeable, memorable characters.
  Lee Chong, who runs Cannery Row's grocery store, is the first to be introduced. He's a fairly astute businessman, though probably a little unorthodox at the same time. He's willing to extend a line of... more info

• John steinbeck
  John Steinbeck portrayed the characters in his book to with such detail as i read i felt like i knew the people he was describing. The clerk in the store was i have to say is my favorite he was your typical laid back type of guy. The story line was well written every chapter opened up a broader view of their world. Its genuine in its writing how they added emotion and feeling in his word and showed how his characters shared a bond. over all it was a good book.

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