Cannery Row
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Set during the Great Depression in Monterey, California, Cannery Row revolves around the people living on a street lined with sardine canneries that shares its namesake.
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Not my favorite of his, but the characters are real as ever. I enjoyed following them.
This is wonderful. I'd only ever read one book by Steinbeck, which was Of Mice and Men a million years ago in high school.
All I really want to comment on is how much Doc ate on his drive from Monterey to La Jolla. That's a 6-7 hour drive. Maybe highways were significantly different enough that it was a much longer drive back then? He ate 3 days worth of meals. I was dumbfounded reading it. Anyway, great book. It's so descriptive and there are so many wonderful artifacts from the 1930s and 1940s.
Lighting a water heater. Soap chips. Beer cans you open with a can opener. I could go on.
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