Cannery Row (Penguin Drop Caps) -

John Steinbeck

Penguin Books

2014

224 páginas

7h 28m

ISBN-13: 9780143125211

Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and people of a place, the cannery district of Monterey, California, which is populated by a mix of those down on their luck and those who choose for other reasons not to live "up the hill" in the more respectable area of town. The flow of the main plot is frequently interrupted by short vignettes that introduce us to various denizens of the Row, most of whom are not directly connected with the central story. These vignettes are often characterized by direct or indirect reference to extreme violence: suicides, corpses, and the cruelty of the natural world.

The "story" of Cannery Row follows the adventures of Mack and the boys, a group of unemployed yet resourceful men who inhabit a converted fish-meal shack on the edge of a vacant lot down on the Row.

Sweet Thursday is the sequel to Cannery Row.

Resenhas (3)

4 (Muito bom)

Talvez como resposta à sua insatisfação ao retornar dos campos de batalha como repórter, Steinbeck não escreveu outro romance de protesto como As Vinhas da Ira. Em vez disso, ele retrata um espírito de paz e comunidade, de tom sentimental, povoado por vagabundos estereotipados de boa índole e prostitutas de bom coração que vivem nos arredores de Monterey, Califórnia, um romance picaresco que celebra a vida dos pobres, mas felizes despossuídos.