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Cannery Row (Penguin Modern Classics)

Cannery Row (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Mr John Steinbeck (Author), Susan Shillinglaw (Introduction)

  • New

    Paperback 2000

    $11.80

  • Used

    Paperback 1990

    $5.18

  • Used

    Hardcover 1967

    $13.42
Synopsis

In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful blend of misfits - gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists - survive side by side in a jumble of adventure and mischief. Lee Chong, the astute owner of the well-stocked grocery store, is also the proprietor of the Palace Flophouse that Mack and his troupe of good-natured 'boys' call home. Dora runs the Bear Flag Restaurant with clockwork efficiency and a generous heart, and Doc, secreted away in his home at Western Biological Laboratories, is the fount of all wisdom. Packed with invention and ramshackle joie de vivre, Cannery Row is Steinbeck's high-spirited tribute to his native California.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 07 Sep 2000
ISBN 10: 0141185082
ISBN 13: 9780141185088

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Author Bio
Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works will be published in Penguin Modern Classics.