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Article: CANON REVISITED; Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
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- Boise Weekly
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- May 20, 2003
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Four men sit on a hill near Monterey Bay, California, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Despite the fact they are shabbily dressed, they smile and laugh profusely as they pass around an oversized bottle of beer. They watch the sun go down over the horizon and share tales of moneymaking scams and adventures gone by. They are kings of this ocean cluster of fish canneries, flophouses and honky-tonks. They are happy.
Few authors described the depression-era hero with the grace of John Steinbeck. In his 1945 novel Cannery Row, Steinbeck weaves a yarn that surrounds this ocean community at the height of America's most depressive economic time.
At the center of the novel is Cannery Row, just west of ...