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Sweet Thursday
- Narrated by: Paul Birchard
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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Summary
Returning to the scene of Cannery Row, Steinbeck brilliantly re-creates its bawdy, high-spirited world of bums, drunks and hookers, telling the story of what happened to everyone after the war. There’s Fauna, the latest madam at the Bear Flag brothel; Doc, still there for everyone else but feeling strangely sad himself; and Suzy, the new hustler in town who might just be the girl to save him.
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- uhhuhlex
- 11-04-16
Return to Cannery Row
This is a sequel to Cannery Row - which I very much enjoyed. The places are the same, but as time has passed some characters have gone and others have arrived. The tendency for trouble and pints of whiskey has not diminished.
I enjoyed the opening of this - almost meta-fictional and a joke on Steinbeck's real life relationship to Monterey. (I listened to the audiobook at the same time of reading the section of Travels With Charley that Steinbeck returns to Northern California).
The story I enjoyed slightly less than Cannery Row - perhaps this suffers from the difficult-second-story aspect. It doesn't do anything terribly different. But nonetheless, I cared for the characters and it was nice to revisit their lives in the wake of WW2.
The reading was good - not too intrusive but with enough modulation to keep me interested.
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- Mrs
- 21-01-19
Return to Cannery Row
This was a wonderfully nostalgic but sad book, memories brought to the forefront of our minds and characters we know and love so well. It was a fun book too. Full of laughter and drunken reverie. Steinbeck makes a masterful return to Cannery Row, which he and Ed Ricketts made famous in the novel of that name. But it is sad to see that the Row is changed since the war. Everyone has his wounds. Five star novel with excellent writing as always from Steinbeck.
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- Amazon Customer
- 21-02-24
Happy ending
glued to the end pleasent journey through the towns life and its characters. resourceful people
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- Anonymous User
- 02-11-20
very enjoyable
Such a wonderful care free read. A moving and at the same time hilarious look at life in all its forms. A must read if you have read Canery Row.
The performance was one of the most energetic and engaging I have ever listen too! Every character had a distinctive voice. Very well done.
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- MRS SYLVIA A MORGAN
- 25-05-19
A book club choice
First Steinbeck I have read/listened to. Found it hard going and odd in beginning but stayed with it and enjoyed it overall. It was read very well.
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