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Transcript: Profile: Colorful world of Cannery Row
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- May 7, 2003
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BOB EDWARDS
Morning Edition (NPR)
05-07-2003
Profile: Colorful world of Cannery Row
Host: BOB EDWARDS
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM
BOB EDWARDS, host:
Fifty-five years ago, the best friend of novelist John Steinbeck was hit by a train after his Buick stalled on the tracks near Cannery Row. At his death, Ed Ricketts was something of a celebrity. Steinbeck had cast Ricketts as the fictional Doc in his best-selling novel. Tomorrow, NPR's Renee Montagne tells the tale of the real-life Doc of Cannery Row. Today, she recalls one of American fiction's most famous locales.
RENEE MONTAGNE reporting:
John Steinbeck began his story this way: `Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a ...
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Encyclopedia entry: Cannery Row
The Oxford Companion to American Literature;
424 words
...Cannery Row, novel by John Steinbeck , published in 1945. On Cannery Row in Monterey, California, live Doc, the sympathetic ... hearted madam of a brothel, the Bear Flag Restaurant; Lee Chong, the shrewd, kind proprietor of a remarkably well ...
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