Cannery Row (Penguin Modern Classics)

One of the BBCs 100 Novels That Shaped Our WorldCannery 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. Meet the gamblers whores drunks bums and artists of Cannery Row in Monterey California during the Great Depression. They want to throw a party for their friend Doc so Mack and the boys set about in their own inimitable way recruiting everyone in the neighbourhood to the cause. But along the way they cant help but get involved in a little mischief and misadventure. It wouldnt be Cannery Row if it was otherwise now would it?Packed with a ramshackle joi de vivre Cannery Row is Steinbacks high-spirited tribute to his native California.Uninhibited bawdy compassionate inquisitive deeply intelligent Daily Telegraph About the Author Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works will be published in Penguin Modern Classics.