num_pages: 148
description: In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful bend of misfits - gamblers, whores, drunks, bums, and artists - survive side by side in a jumble of adventure and mischief. Lee Chong, the astute owner of the fantastically well-stocked grocery store, is also the proprietor of the Palace Flophouse that Mack and his troupe of good-natured 'boys' call home. Dora, of the flaming orange hair and taste for Nile green dresses, runs the brothel with clockwork efficiency. Doc, who owns the laboratory, is the fount of all generosity and wisdom. Everybody wants to do something nice for Doc: the trouble is, he always ends up paying.Packed with invention and joie de vivre, Cannery Row is Steinbeck's high-spirited tribute to his native California.WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE.Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven, and Tortilla Flat. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers—and to the many who revisit them again and again.
language: English
title: Cannery Row
titlecomplete: Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
characters: Lee Chong, Cannery Row, Gay, "Doc" Bradley Stanwick, Eddie, Doc, Dora, Lee Chong, Mack, Mack, Hughie, Eddie, Hazel, Dora
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, The United States Of America, Classic Literature, American, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 133296
places: Monterey, California, California, The United States of America
series: Cannery Row
publisher: Penguin Books