Cannery Row

Not my favorite Steinbeck book but, like pizza, it is still very good.

”Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.”

This book works almost as a collection of short stories/ anecdotes about the people living in Cannery Row. The writing is beautiful, funny and really makes the characters shine.

It was the first Steinbeck book I read in English and the experience is very different. I might need to reread everything else in the original versions.

100% recommended