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1) Cannery row
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"Cannery Row is just a few blocks long. Within its limits are the sardine fisheries which give the Row its name. The story that builds up around this area and the memorable characters who inhabit it is infused with warmth, understanding, and a great fund of human values." -- From inside book jacket.
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A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation.Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan:...
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The final novel of one of America’s most beloved writers-a tale of degeneration, corruption, and spiritual crisis In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had “resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American. ” Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck’s last novel, works...
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