Sweet Thursday - Softcover

Steinbeck, John

4.11

17,010 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140048898 ISBN 13: 9780140048896

Publisher: Penguin, 1979

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In Monterey, on the California Coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday - one of those days that's just bad from the start. But Sweet Thursday is sunny and clear, a day when anything can happen. Returning to the scene of Cannery Row, Steinbeck brilliantly creates its bawdy, high-spirited world of bums, drunks and hookers, telling the story of what happened to everyone after the war. There are colourful characters old and new, all united by love, laughter and tears: Fauna, the latest madam at the Bear Flag brothel, Doc, still there for everyone else but feeling strangely sad himself, and Suzy, the new hustler in town who might just be the girl to save him.

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Review:

a A postwar continuation of Cannery Row, [Sweet Thursday is] every bit as juicy and relaxed as the original. . . . This is comedyabawdy, sentimental, and good fun.a
a"The Atlantic"
a An emphatic and clear-cut statement of Steinbeckas greatest theme: the common bonds of humanity and love which make goodness and happiness possible.a
a"The New Republic"

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"

? 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"

About the Author:

John Steinbeck (1902-68) is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. During the 1930s, his works included The Red Pony, Pastures of Heaven, Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle, and Of Mice and Men. The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, earned him a Pulitzer Prize. In 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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