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Cannery Row

The Cannery Row series in reading order: 1 book reviewed on The Bookish Elf, first published in 1943.

Book 1 in one line: A plotless, affectionate portrait of a Monterey street and the men who live on it badly. Steinbeck's prose has never been looser or warmer, and the two parties thrown for Doc give the book its only shape. The sentimentality is…

Books reviewed1
Series average4.0★
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Cannery Row cover
Book 1Cannery Row1943 · ★ 4.0

Nobody here wants anything. That is the whole trouble, and the whole point.

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Cannery Row cover
Start hereCannery Row1943 · ★ 4.0

Nobody here wants anything. That is the whole trouble, and the whole point.

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