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Novel (hardcover) ISBN. 0-670-68686-7. Preceded by. Cannery Row. Sweet Thursday is a 1954 novel by John Steinbeck. It is a sequel to Cannery Row and set in the years after the end of World War II . According to Steinbeck in the narrative, "Sweet Thursday" is the day between Lousy Wednesday and Waiting Friday.
1,558 reviews 4,346 followers. September 15, 2021. In Sweet Thursday – as he earlier did in Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row – John Steinbeck, in a jolly way, romanticizes living on the fringes of society. In Cannery Row, there are two monumental establishments: Doc’s Laboratory and Fauna’s whorehouse….
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Jul 29, 2008 · Three powerful novels of the late 1930s focused on the California laboring class: In Dubious Battle (1936), Of Mice and Men (1937), and the book considered by many his finest, The Grapes of Wrath (1939). The Grapes of Wrath won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1939.
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Jul 29, 2008 · 4.6 1,895 ratings. Book 2 of 2: Cannery Row. See all formats and editions. A Penguin Classic. In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that are just naturally bad.
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Sweet Thursday is a sequel to Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, set in post-war Monterey, California. It follows Doc, a marine biologist, and his friends as they deal with changes, challenges, and romance in their community.
About Sweet Thursday. A Penguin Classic. In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that are just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of Cannery Row —the weedy lots and junk heaps and flophouses of Monterey, John Steinbeck once more brings to life the ...
Jan 1, 1996 · Sweet Thursday (Twentieth-century Classics) Paperback – January 1, 1996. A group of California alcoholics, whores, and idlers form bonds of affection among themselves and with a biologist in post-World War II Monterey. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.
