ISBN: 9780140187373
Editorial: Penguin
Año de edición: 1994
Edición: 1
N° Paginas: 224
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: Steinbeck's tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependant on one another for both physical and emotional survival A Penguin Classic Published in 1945,Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as itis 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."For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.CríticasBy the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature"John Steinbeck knew and understood America and Americans better than any other writer of the twentieth century."--The Dallas Morning News"A man whose work was equal to the vast social themes that drove him."--Don DeLilloBiografía del autorJohn Steinbeck (1902-1968) born in Salinas, California, grew up in a fertile agricultural valley, about twenty-five miles from the Pacific Coast. Both the valley and the coast would serve as settings for some of his best fiction. In 1919 he went to Stanford University, where he intermittently enrolled in literature and writing courses until he left in 1925 without taking a degree. During the next five years he supported himself as a laborer and journalist in New York City, all the time working on his first novel,Cup of Gold (1929). After marriage and a move to Pacific Grove, he published two California books,The Pastures of Heaven (1932) andTo a God Unknown (1933), and worked on short stories later collected inThe Long Valley (1938). Popular success and financial security came only withTortilla Flat (1935), stories about Monterey's paisanos. A ceaseless experimenter throughout his career, Steinbeck changed courses regularly. Three powerful novels of the late 1930s focused on the California laboring class:In Dubious Battle (1936),Of Mice and Men (1937), and the book considered by many his finest,The Grapes of Wrath (1939).The Grapes of Wrath won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1939. Early in the 1940s, Steinbeck became a filmmaker withThe Forgotten Village (1941) and a serious student of marine biology withSea of Cortez (1941). He devoted his services to the war, writing Bombs Away (1942) and the controversial play-noveletteThe Moon is Down (1942).Cannery Row (1945),The Wayward Bus (1948), another experimental drama,Burning Bright (1950), andThe Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951) preceded publication of the monumentalEast of Eden (1952), an ambitious saga of the Salinas Valley and his own family's history. The last decades of his life were spent in New York City and Sag Harbor with his third wife, with whom he traveled widely. Later books includeSweet Thursday (1954),The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication (1957),Once There Was a War (1958),The Winter of Our Discontent (1961),Travels with Charley in Search of America (1962),America and Americans (1966), and the posthumously publishedJournal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters (1969),Viva Zapata! (1975),The Acts of King A
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Steinbeck, John
- Editorial: Penguin
- N° Paginas: 224
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
