![]() It’s more a collection of episodes about the people who live in the sardine canning district of Monterey, California. ![]() The is a novel which doesn’t have much of a plot. True it wasn’t very uplifting but there was a sense of warmth and affection in his characters and tinges of humour mingled with the dispiriting nature of their predicament. Not quite ready to do battle with Grapes just however, I opted for the much shorter novel Cannery Row. It brought tears to my eyes, not of pity but of joy resulting from Steinbeck’s ability to wrest humour out of the most unlikely circumstances. It was not until I joined a local book club who just happened to be reading Of Mice and Men that month, that I got an inkling that I’d misjudged the man. My first encounter with him ( Grapes of Wrath) hadn’t given me the impression he was anything other than depressing. ![]() The last emotion I expected to experience with a John Steinbeck novel was laughter. ![]()
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