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Cannery Row

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Title:Cannery Row
Author:
Steinbeck, John   
(3 of 31 for author by title)
The Chrysanthemums
Burning Bright
Published:   1945
Publisher:The Viking Press
Tags:fiction, life, film/TV adaptation
Description:

It is set during the Great Depression in Monterey, California, on a street lined with sardine canneries that is known as Cannery Row. 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. The actual location Steinbeck was writing about, Ocean View Avenue in Monterey, was later renamed "Cannery Row" in honor of the book. A film version was released in 1982 and a stage version was produced in 1995.—Wikipedia. [Suggest a different description.]

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John Steinbeck (1902-1968) was one of the great American writers. He was known for writing books filled with social criticism such as Tortilla Flats and The Grapes of Wrath. He won the Nobel Prize in 1962 for his "realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception." (nobelprize.org)

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