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A short summary of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Cannery Row.
Our Story. John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row captured life on Cannery Row during its industrial heyday, but the story began long before canneries lined the famous street. The history of the Row is a fascinating tale, from Native American, Asian and European settlement, through the boom and bust of the whaling and sardine industries, to restoration ...
Prologue. Cannery Row is a street populated by canning factories in Monterey, California. Wondering how he can accurately portray what it’s like to live in this place, Steinbeck decides to simply “let the stories crawl in by themselves,” thus beginning a collection of loosely related vignettes.
John Steinbeck - Cannery Row. John Steinbeck is one of the best-known and most revered American literary figures. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Grapes of Wrath (1939), highlighting the lives of migrant farm workers in the Salinas Valley, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.
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First published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is—both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. John Steinbeck draws on his memories...
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Feb 5, 2002 · Books. Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition) John Steinbeck. Penguin, Feb 5, 2002 - Fiction - 192 pages. Steinbeck's tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society,...
Aug 28, 2019 · Anticipating the 80th anniversary of John Steinbeck and Edward Ricketts’s expedition to the Sea of Cortez, and the 75th anniversary of the publication of Steinbeck’s novel Cannery Row, new profiles by or about a pair of writers born in England brilliantly reflect the role played by Steinbeck, Ricketts, and their free-range relationship in marryi...
