John Steinbeck: Cannery Row
Cannery Row
Buch
- Penguin LLC US, 06/2006
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780140187373
- Bestellnummer: 5169773
- Umfang: 224 Seiten
- Auflage: New ed
- Gewicht: 185 g
- Maße: 198 x 129 mm
- Stärke: 18 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 15.6.2006
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
Steinbeck's tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependant on one another for both physical and emotional survivalA Penguin Classic
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."
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Biografie
John Ernst Steinbeck, amerikanischer Erzähler deutsch-irischer Abstammung, geboren am 27. Februar 1902 in Salinas, wuchs in Kalifornien auf. 1918-24 Studium der Naturwissenschaften an der Stanford University, Gelegenheitsarbeiter, danach freier Schriftsteller in Los Gatos bei Monterey. Im Zweiten Weltkrieg Kriegsberichterstatter, 1962 Nobelpreis für Literatur, gestorben am 20. Dezember 1968 in New York.§ John Steinbeck
Cannery Row
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