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The sorrows of an American
by Gareth on Jun.04, 2009, under Reviews
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Erik Davidsen is, in no particular order, divorced, a psychiatrist, Norwegian American, childless and a very lonely man. (continue reading…)
Cannery Row
by Gareth on Sep.04, 2007, under Reviews
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“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. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses.”
While all this may be true (and who am I to argue with Mr Steinbeck), it’s also a rather good book written in 1945, as well as a film released in 1982.
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