Home News Money Sports ... Life Inside Travel Travel home Business travel City Guides Cruise news ... Web travel Commerce Shop Travel European Marketplace Tech Weather Site Web Click here to get the Daily Briefing in your inbox 04/08/2002 - Updated 04:42 PM ET In search of John Steinbeck By Marco R. della Cava, USA TODAY 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. By Jack Gruber, USA TODAYt The Steinbeck family home from 1902-1925 on 132 Central Street in Salinas, California. Or so it was in 1945, the year John Steinbeck published this resonant opening to Cannery Row , a novel in which many of his local working-class heroes, morphed by the pen into literary archetypes, populated a human tide pool of noble fools and moral hustlers. Today, Cannery Row is no longer a stink; the pungent eau de sardine that permeated it for decades has long been replaced by the scent of steaming lattes and freshly baked pastries. And the grating noise from a grinding orchestra of fish factories has become a pleasant symphony of crashing waves, squawking gulls and barking sea lions. | |
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