B2 Literary Mayhem 17, Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

before you read this: don't forget the "gorilla" translations and to check out new books in library: 

here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoiDA8dEogrHdEVwNWM4cjZVNXVSZW5SM0FMN0NJWGc

and here https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=119iEakjLOTuZ2XXmx1TkRziHhmC0b3GnAmQEFp4

Hello gang, 

my name is John Steinbeck, and I'm telling you this:

We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought."

 I am going to be your host for the next two weeks starting with my 1945 novel about Cannery Row in Monterrey, California:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHTzBIMFppQ05RQml2NzdndFVzai12UQ

Cannery Row

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. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses... 

more:

audio to chapter: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHQUFMR1FGZjVSck9IanJ4U2kwUzdkZw

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   Steinbeck's Cannery Row - C-SPAN Video Library  c-spanvideo.org25 Apr 2002 - 17 min Mr. Hemp talked about Cannery Row in Monterey, JohnSteinbeck's novels, and Steinbeck's treatment of ...

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   Our drive along Steinbeck's Cannery Row in ...  youtube.com21 Apr 2009 - 3 min - Uploaded by AvikJan This is Cannery Row made famous by author John Steinbeckwho wrote the Grapes or Rath and Of Mice and ...