Mack and the Boys are everywhere and add spice to the community on Cannery Row. Yet he is empty in places that Steinbeck is able to reveal and describe. Doc is the main character, a man with a solid education, job and place in the world of marine biology. They are not people like me, yet they are every part of my life experience. The story is about respect and how people on Cannery Row have lives devoid of meaning apart from place and time. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Steinbeck builds characters that you fall in love with and then struggle to support as they drift into trouble usually of their own making. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. In her introduction, Susan Shillinglaw shows how the novel expresses, both in style and theme, much that is essentially Steinbeck: “scientific detachment, empathy toward the lonely and depressed…and, at the darkest level…the terror of isolation and nothingness.”įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.
Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, including longtime friend Ed Ricketts, Steinbeck interweaves the stories of Doc, Dora, Mack and his boys, Lee Chong, and the other characters in this world where only the fittest survive, to create a novel that is at once one of his most humorous and poignant works. Published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual.
Steinbeck's tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependant on one another for both physical and emotional survival
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