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Cannery Row
novel by Steinbeck
Cannery Row, novel by John Steinbeck, published in 1945. Like most of Steinbeckās postwar work, Cannery Row is sentimental in tone while retaining the authorās characteristic social criticism. Peopled by stereotypical good-natured bums and warm-hearted prostitutes living on the fringes of Monterey, Calif., the picaresque novel celebrates the lives of the poor but happy dispossessed.
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