Cannery Row

ISBN: 0330241451
Author: John Steinbeck
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Flophouses, honky-tonks, whore-houses, colour and nostalgia - this is Cannery Row...Cannery Row is the home of the enigmatic grocer, Lee Chong, of the boozy, boisterous Mack and the boys, of Dora and her girls at the Bear Flag, and of Doc, whose mind has no horizon and whose sympathy has no warp...And when Mack and the boys decide to give Doc a party, the whole Row is involved in the chaotic, disastrous and hilarious results....

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About this copy: this edition published in 1974, of the all time classic Cannery Row

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