Sweet Thursday (PMC)
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品牌: John Steinbeck
基本信息·出版社：Penguin Classics
·页码：272 页
·出版日期：2000年
·ISBN：014118552X
·条形码：9780141185521
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
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In Monterey, on the California Coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that's just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of CANNERY ROW, the weedy lots, junk heaps and flop houses of Monterey, Steinbeck once again brings to life the denizens of a netherworld of laughter and tears. The book is in many ways a statement about Steinbeck's greatest theme: the common bonds of humanity and love which make goodness and happiness possible.
作者简介Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works will be available in Penguin Modern Classics.
编辑推荐Review
Perhaps Cannery Row was not top Steinbeck, but I loved it, and the characters live today as vividly as when I first met them in his pages, ten years ago. So it is sheer joy to meet them again at least a goodly number of them- flotsam and jetsam of humanity, perhaps, but lovable and mad and loyal and cockeyed. And then there's Doc, the war behind him and nothing in front, for the laboratory, over which he had presided with dignity, has gone to pot under the indifferent mismanagement of Old Jingleballicks, and the drive of a ambition simply isn't there. The cannery is closed down, for good; the boys live on in the Palace Flophouse, though their "landlord", Lee, is no longer there; and Fauna (once Flora) still runs the Bear Flag Cafe, in place of her dead sister, Dora. Once again there's humor and pathos, check by jowl, in the characters which link the succession of incidents together. And this time there's a problem-studded romance, as Suzy, who was no good as a hustler, was destined by friends as mate to bring Doc back to normal. The boys planned another party for him- more disastrous than the first- and feeble-witted Hazel somehow managed to do the right thing the wrong way to straighten it out...Scheduled for musical comedy production in 1955. But meantime- welcome back to Cannery Row. (Kirkus Reviews)
Review
“ A postwar continuation of Cannery Row, [Sweet Thursday is] every bit as juicy and relaxed as the original. . . . This is comedy—bawdy, sentimental, and good fun.”
—The Atlantic
“ An emphatic and clear-cut statement of Steinbeck’s greatest theme: the common bonds of humanity and love which make goodness and happiness possible.”
—The New Republic--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.