Malloy, who turn an abandoned boiler into their home and Mack and the boys of the Palace Flophouse, whose exploits drive the narrative of this book.įor the most part, this is a group scraping by during the Depression. Steinbeck had me at this first sentence and drew me in with his ensemble of oddball characters–Henri the painter who has been building a boat for seven years Lee Chong, the grocer whose emporium has a little bit of everything from every when Doc, the marine biologist who collects marine life for research, and functions as a kind of doctor for the bodies and souls on the Row Dora, the madam of the Bear Flag Restaurant where sailors and others could get far more than a sandwich from her girls Mr. “Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.” Summary: Steinbeck’s Depression-era narrative of the residents of Cannery Row, eking out an existence on society’s margins, and forming an unlikely community in the process. New York: Penguin Books, 1992 (originally published 1945).
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