{"product_id":"9780141185088-cannery-row","title":"Cannery Row","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLee Chong, the owner of the well-stocked grocery store, is also the proprietor of the Palace Flophouse that Mack and his troupe of good-natured 'boys' call home. Dora runs the Bear Flag Restaurant with clockwork efficiency and a generous heart, and Doc, secreted away in his home at Western Biological Laboratories, is the fount of all wisdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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.'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeet  the gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists of Cannery Row in  Monterey, California, during the Great Depression. They want to throw a  party for their friend Doc, so Mack and the boys set about, in their own  inimitable way, recruiting everyone in the neighbourhood to the cause.  But along the way they can't help but get involved in a little mischief  and misadventure. It wouldn't be Cannery Row if it was otherwise, now  would it?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePacked with a ramshackle joi de vivre, \u003ci\u003eCannery Row\u003c\/i\u003e is Steinback's high-spirited tribute to his native California.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Uninhibited, bawdy, compassionate, inquisitive, deeply intelligent'  \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943077458017,"sku":"9780141185088","price":9.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32416265.jpg?v=1737274642","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141185088-cannery-row","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}