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In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that are just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of Cannery Row, the weedy lots and junk heaps and flophouses of Monterey, John Steinbeck once more brings to life the denizens of a netherworld of laughter and tears, from Fauna, new headmistress of the local brothel, to Hazel, a bum whose mother must have wanted a daughter.… (més)
jlelliott: In the appendix to The Log of the Sea of Cortez Steinbeck tells the stories of the real denizens of Cannery Row, inspiration for the characters in Sweet Thursday.
A fun sequel to Cannery Row, John Steinbeck's Sweet Thursday succeeds by discarding that earlier novel's experimental chaos but retaining the warmth of its characters. Thursday's plotline is thin – the closest thing to a through-line is Doc's lonesomeness and courtship of Suzy – but nevertheless has a bit more discipline than Cannery Row. The more experienced Steinbeck is better at keeping hold of the reins of storytelling amid the schemes and haphazardry of his characters. The book emerges as light and congenial, a well-balanced piece with some astute literary flourishes (the drawing of Doc's depression in Chapter 3 is fantastic) and some stand-out scenes (such as Fauna's pep-talk to Suzy (pg. 137)). A good show all round; Steinbeck did the Row proud. ( )
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One night Mack lay back on his bed in the Palace Flophouse and he said, "I ain't never been satisfied with that book Cannery Row. I would of went about it different."
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If only people would give the thought, the care, the judgment to international affairs, to politics, even to their jobs, that they lavish on what to wear to a masquerade, the world would run in greased grooves.
The canneries themselves fought the war by getting the limit taken off fish and catching them all. It was done for patriotic reasons, but that didn't bring the fish back. As with the oysters in Alice, 'They'd eaten every one.' It was the same noble impulse that stripped the forests of the West and right now is pumping water out of California's earth faster than it can rain back in. When the desert comes, people will be sad; just as Cannery Row was sad when all the pilchards were caught and canned and eaten
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"I think you'd of made a hell of a president," he said.
In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that are just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of Cannery Row, the weedy lots and junk heaps and flophouses of Monterey, John Steinbeck once more brings to life the denizens of a netherworld of laughter and tears, from Fauna, new headmistress of the local brothel, to Hazel, a bum whose mother must have wanted a daughter.
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