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Melody Walker's avatar

Cannery Row is one of the books I read with colour pencils…. To study the sheer beauty, the simplicity yet extraordinarily masterful use of language. I want to understand how and why he uses the verb forms he does- why does he use simple past rather than continuous as an example? What subtle rhythm does he provoke? I once read the whole book looking for adverbs to understand how he describes emotion and in the scene when Doc finds the body, which is so very powerful, there is only one adverb (from memory). I haven’t delved into or persevered with any of his other works but Cannery Row is a masterpiece of literature and a treasure of literary craft.

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E.T. Hansen's avatar

Thanks for this. Haven’t read Steinbeck since school NIW i want to read cannery row.

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