![]() Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, “Saints and angels and martyrs and holymen” and he would have meant the same thing.’ Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, “whores, pimps, gamblers and sons of bitches,” by which he meant Everybody. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses. ‘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. The opening of Cannery Row is a case in point: “While I understand the New York Times’ reservations about Steinbeck’s preachy tendencies and his occasional heavy-handedness, he just as often provides light and beautiful prose, prose brimming with warmth and charm. The story revolves around the people living there: Lee Chong, the local grocer Doc, a marine biologist and Mack, the leader of a group of derelicts.” It is set during the Great Depression in Monterey, California, on a street lined with sardine canneries that is known as Cannery Row. “Cannery Row is a novel by American author John Steinbeck, published in 1945. ![]()
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