Cannery Row - (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by John Steinbeck (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Drawing characters based on his memories of real inhabitants of Monterey, Steinbeck interweaves the stories of Doc, Henri, Mack, and his boys, in a world where only the fittest survive, in a novel that focuses on the acceptance of life as it is--a story at once humorous and poignant.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Steinbeck's tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependant on one another for both physical and emotional survival <p/>A Penguin Classic</b> <p/> Published in 1945, <i>Cannery Row </i>focuses on the acceptance of life as it <i>is</i> both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, including longtime friend Ed Ricketts, Steinbeck interweaves the stories of Doc, Dora, Mack and his boys, Lee Chong, and the other characters in this world where only the fittest survive, to create a novel that is at once one of his most humorous and poignant works. In her introduction, Susan Shillinglaw shows how the novel expresses, both in style and theme, much that is essentially Steinbeck: "Scientific detachment, empathy toward the lonely and depressed . . . and, at the darkest level . . . the terror of isolation and nothingness." <p/>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature</b> <p/>"John Steinbeck knew and understood America and Americans better than any other writer of the twentieth century." <b>--<i>The Dallas Morning News</i></b> <p/>"A man whose work was equal to the vast social themes that drove him." <b>--Don DeLillo</b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>John Steinbeck </b>(1902-1968) born in Salinas, California, grew up in a fertile agricultural valley, about twenty-five miles from the Pacific Coast. Both the valley and the coast would serve as settings for some of his best fiction. In 1919 he went to Stanford University, where he intermittently enrolled in literature and writing courses until he left in 1925 without taking a degree. During the next five years he supported himself as a laborer and journalist in New York City, all the time working on his first novel, <i>Cup of Gold</i> (1929). <p/> After marriage and a move to Pacific Grove, he published two California books, <i>The Pastures of Heaven</i> (1932) and <i>To a God Unknown</i> (1933), and worked on short stories later collected in <i>The Long Valley</i> (1938). Popular success and financial security came only with <i>Tortilla Flat</i> (1935), stories about Monterey's paisanos. A ceaseless experimenter throughout his career, Steinbeck changed courses regularly. Three powerful novels of the late 1930s focused on the California laboring class: <i>In Dubious Battle</i> (1936), <i>Of Mice and Men</i> (1937), and the book considered by many his finest, <i>The Grapes of Wrath</i> (1939). <i>The Grapes of Wrath</i> won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1939. <p/> Early in the 1940s, Steinbeck became a filmmaker with <i>The Forgotten Village</i> (1941) and a serious student of marine biology with <i>Sea of Cortez</i> (1941). He devoted his services to the war, writing Bombs Away (1942) and the controversial play-novelette <i>The Moon is Down</i> (1942).<i>Cannery Row</i> (1945), <i>The Wayward Bus</i> (1948), another experimental drama, <i>Burning Bright </i>(1950), and <i>The Log from the Sea of Cortez</i> (1951) preceded publication of the monumental <i>East of Eden</i> (1952), an ambitious saga of the Salinas Valley and his own family's history. <p/> The last decades of his life were spent in New York City and Sag Harbor with his third wife, with whom he traveled widely. Later books include <i>Sweet Thursday</i> (1954), <i>The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication</i> (1957), <i>Once There Was a War</i> (1958), <i>The Winter of Our Discontent </i>(1961), <i>Travels with Charley in Search of America</i> (1962), <i>America and Americans</i> (1966), and the posthumously published <i>Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters</i> (1969), <i>Viva Zapata! </i>(1975), <i>The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights</i> (1976), and <i>Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath</i> (1989). <p/> Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, and, in 1964, he was presented with the United States Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Steinbeck died in New York in 1968. Today, more than thirty years after his death, he remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. <br><p><b>Susan Shillinglaw</b> (introducer) is a professor of English San Jose State University. She is the author of <i>On Reading the Grapes of Wrath</i> and <i>Carol and John Steinbeck: Portrait of a Marriage</i>.</p>
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