Cannery Row
A Classics, Historical, Literature book. What can it profit a man to gain the whole world and...
In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful bend 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 fantastically well-stocked grocery store, is also the proprietor of the Palace Flophouse that Mack and his troupe of good-natured 'boys' call...
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- Pages: 176 pages
- ISBN: 9780141185088 / 141185082
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The Word is symbol of delight which sucks up men and scenes, trees, plants, factories, and Pekinese. Then the Thing becomes the Word and the back to Thing again, but warped and woven into a fantastic pattern. John Steinbeck, Cannery Row // What can it profit a man to gain the whole world and to come to his property with a gastric ulcer, a blown prostate and bifocals?Mack and the boys avoid the trap, walk around the poison, step over the noose while a generation of trapped,, poisoned, and trussed-up men scream at them and call them no-goods, come to bad ends, blot-on-the town-thieves, rascals, bums. Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love... Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford coil than the clitoris, about the planetary system of gears that the solar system of stars. John Steinbeck, Cannery Row //
One of the joys of Good Reads was the rediscovery of Steinbeck and his incredible library of works. Allan in my GR Ireland group got us to read him and it has been such a pleasure. It is quite embarrassing that a guy from Belfast prodded me into reading an author whose books are set in places from down the road from me but I am glad... Why does Steinbeck's narrative voice entice me so, I've been asking myself over the past few days. In my second reading of this novella, which has become a favorite of mine, I realized that it's his unshakeable belief in mankind. Steinbeck reinvents the concept of family and expands its boundaries with his blatant love for humanity.... While the setting for this novel is somewhat bleak--an impoverished and ofttimes depressed coastal town in California--the characters are brought to life by everday exchanges and emotions the reader can relate to.I knew after the first paragraph that this novel would be enjoyable because it is so well crafted. One would expect nothing...
