There is more humor here than the first book and, perhaps because it is longer, I felt the story was more substantial in some ways, less in others. Love, happiness and loneliness are central themes with great highs and lows included. This is a good book – it’s sweet, it’s simple, it’s light-hearted. “These things, however, are known about greatness: need gives it life and puts it in action it never comes without pain it leaves a man changed, chastened, and exalted at the same time – he can never return to simplicity.” “There’s a hole in reality through which we can look if we wish.” John Steinbeck Penguin, 2001 - Cannery Row (Monterey, Calif.)- 176 pages 1Review Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified John.
Steinbecks tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependant on one.
“When people change direction it is a rare one who does not spend the first half of his journey looking back over his shoulder.” Buy a cheap copy of Cannery Row book by John Steinbeck. “It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”
Steinbeck writes in such a way that you have to re-read certain sentences because they’re at once so simple yet resonate such truth:
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