CANNERY ROW, John Steinbeck, 1ST EDITION & PRINTING, Viking Press, 1945

Description: Here on offer is a nice copy of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row, his 9th novel published by The Viking Press. This is a 1st American edition, 1st printing, (2nd state) with correct statement "FIRST PUBLISHED BY THE VIKING PRESS IN 1945" on the CR page, with no other printings stated. The dust jacket is an original for this edition and is protected from further wear by a Mylar sleeve. ******************************************************************************************************************* "Steinbeck’s tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependant on one another for both physical and emotional survival . . . 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, 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. 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.' " ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature 'for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception'. He has been called 'a giant of American letters.' During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). The Pulitzer Prize–winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. In the first 75 years after it was published, it sold 14 million copies. Most of Steinbeck's work is set in central California, particularly in the Salinas Valley and the California Coast Ranges region. His works frequently explored the themes of fate and injustice, especially as applied to downtrodden or everyman protagonists. The above text was taken from, respectively, Penguin publishing (via Google Books) and Wikipedia.[Steinbeck, John. Cannery Row. United Kingdom: Penguin Publishing Group, 1994.]

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