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Cannery Row
- By: John Steinbeck
- Narrated by: Jerry Farden
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,503
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,019
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,002
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. Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, Steinbeck interweaves the stories of Doc, Henri, Mack and his boys, 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 most poignant works.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Five stars with a Caveat
- By Bette on 04-23-12
- Cannery Row
- By: John Steinbeck
- Narrated by: Jerry Farden
Beauty and Grit
Reviewed: 08-27-22
Mr Steinbeck’s Cannery Row is a wonderful reflection of what I imagine Monterey was like back in his day. The most profound dichotomies I found in this story is life and death, responsibility and carelessness, knowledge and ignorance, productivity and idleness, beauty and ugliness …. This what life is full of now and forever yet when I go the Monterey and the surrounding areas I do perceive the beauty and grittiness of what is there today, and likely more pronounced in Steinbeck’s time. Monterey Bay and it’s surrounding areas are still wonderous but what I see is the ugliness and grit is obscured by the immigrant population that works the land and the God awful and unreachable price of real estate, making this blessed area at once heaven and hell. A truly great book that you can app
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