num_pages: 128
description: A tender and bawdy fable of some gaily disreputable avoiders of work, drunks, fancy ladies, benign bums and social-outcast philosophers, including:Dora, a great big woman with flaming orange hair and taste for Nile green evening dresses, who keeps an honest one-price house...Hazel, whose mother was too tired to notice his sex when she named him, and who didn't pay enough attention in reform school to learn viciousness and criminality...Mary Talbot, a lovely young thing whose great-grandmother had been burned as a witch, and who gave tea parties for the neighborhood cats...Eddie, the understudy bartender who believed that a man got just as drunk on half a glass as a whole one if he was in the mood to get drunk at all...and of course, Doc, owner and operator of the Western Biological Laboratory, with the hands of a brain surgeon, about whom they said he had helped many a girl out of one trouble and into another...
language: English
title: Cannery Row
titlecomplete: Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
characters: Dora, Hughie, "Doc" Bradley Stanwick, Hazel, Mack, Cannery Row, Lee Chong, Eddie, Gay, Eddie, Doc, Dora, Lee Chong, Mack
genres: Fiction, American, The United States Of America, Classic Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 133347
places: California, Monterey, California, The United States of America
series: Cannery Row
publisher: Bantam