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Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition)

Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition)by John SteinbeckPenguin (Non-Classics)

Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Henry the painter sorts through junk lots for pieces of wood to incorporate into the boat he is building, while the girls from Dora Flood’s bordello venture out now and then to enjoy a bit of sunshine. Lee Chong stocks his grocery with almost anything a man could want, and Doc, a young marine biologist who ministers to sick puppies and unhappy souls, unexpectedly finds true love. Cannery Row is just a few blocks long, but the story it harbors is suffused with warmth, understanding, and a great fund of human values.

First published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is—both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. John Steinbeck draws on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, and interweaves their stories in this world where only the fittest survive—creating what is at once one of his most humorous and poignant works. In Cannery Row, John Steinbeck returns to the setting of Tortilla Flat to create another evocative portrait of life as it is lived by those who unabashedly put the highest value on the intangibles—human warmth, camaraderie, and love.

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The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat, The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, The Moon Is Down, Cannery Row, The Pearl

The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat, The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, The Moon Is Down, Cannery Row, The Pearlby John SteinbeckThe Viking Press

.Hardback,Ex-Library,with usual stamps markings, ,in good all-round condition, ,92pages.

Of Mice and Men / Cannery Row (2 Books in 1)

Of Mice and Men / Cannery Row (2 Books in 1)by John SteinbeckPenguin (Non-Classics)

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Real Life on Cannery Row: Real People, Places and Events That Inspired John Steinbeck

Real Life on Cannery Row: Real People, Places and Events That Inspired John Steinbeckby A. L. LundyAngel City Press
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Steinbeck Novels 1942-1952: The Moon Is Down / Cannery Row / The Pearl / East of Eden (Library of America)

Steinbeck Novels 1942-1952: The Moon Is Down / Cannery Row / The Pearl / East of Eden (Library of America)by John SteinbeckLibrary of America

This third volume in The Library of America's authoritative edition of John Steinbeck's writings shows one of America's most enduring popular writers continuing restlessly to explore new subject matter and new approaches to storytelling.

The Moon Is Down (1942), set in an unnamed Scandinavian country under German occupation, dramatizes the transformation of ordinary life under totalitarian rule and the underground struggle against the Nazi invaders. In Cannery Row (1945) Steinbeck paid tribute to his closest friend, the marine biologist Ed Ricketts, in the central character of Doc, proprietor of the Western Biological Laboratory and spiritual and financial mainstay of a cast of philosophical drifters and hangers-on. The comic and bawdy evocation of the main street of Monterey's sardine-canning district has made this one of the most popular of all Steinbeck's novels. Steinbeck's long involvement with Mexican culture is distilled in The Pearl (1947). Expanding on an anecdote he had heard about a boy who found a pearl of unusual size, Steinbeck turned it into an allegory of the corrupting influence of sudden wealth. The Pearl appears here with the original illustrations by José Clemente Orozco.

Ambitious in scale and original in structure, East of Eden (1952) recounts the violent and emotionally turbulent history of a Salinas Valley family through several generations. Drawing on Biblical parallels, East of Eden is an epic that explores the writer's deepest and most anguished concerns within a landscape that for him had mythic resonance.

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John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath, The Moon Is Down, Cannery Row, East of Eden, Of Mice And Men

John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath, The Moon Is Down, Cannery Row, East of Eden, Of Mice And Menby John SteinbeckOctopus Books

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Cannery Row

Cannery Rowby SteinbeckBantam Books

Snug Harbor Cannery; a Beacon on the Forgotten Shore 1919-1980

by Katherine Johnson RingsmuthNational Park Service

An important, new excurstion into Alaska's social and economic history. Rather than treating the Snug Harbor Cannery as an economic statistic, an instance of the larger phenomenon of economic and resource development in Alaska, Johnson credits the people and product of Snug Harbor with an integrity of their own.

Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950

Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950by Vicki L. RuizUniversity of New Mexico Press

Women have been the mainstay of the grueling, seasonal canning industry for over a century. This book is their collective biography—a history of their family and work lives, and of their union. Out of the labor militancy of the 1930s emerged the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA). Quickly it became the seventh largest CIO affiliate and a rare success story of women in unions.

Thousands of Mexican and Mexican-American women working in canneries in southern California established effective, democratic trade union locals run by local members. These rank-and-file activists skillfully managed union affairs, including negotiating such benefits as maternity leave, company-provided day care, and paid vacations—in some cases better benefits than they enjoy today. But by 1951, UCAPAWA lay in ruins—a victim of red baiting in the McCarthy era and of brutal takeover tactics by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

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The Grapes of Wrath / The Moon Is Down / Cannery Row / East of Eden / Of Mice and Men

The Grapes of Wrath / The Moon Is Down / Cannery Row / East of Eden / Of Mice and Menby John SteinbeckBook Sales
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