Cannery Row

Book info: Cannery Row (Hardcover, 128 pages – Bantam, 1982) – Bantam, 1982. Language: Eng.

Condition: Like New

A tender and bawdy fable of some gaily disreputable avoiders of work, drunks, fancy ladies, benign bums and social-outcast philosophers, including:Dora, a great big woman with flaming orange hair and taste for Nile green evening dresses, who keeps an honest one-price house...Hazel, whose mother was too tired to notice his sex when she named him, and who didn't pay enough attention in reform school to learn viciousness and criminality...Mary Talbot, a lovely young thing whose great-grandmother had been burned as a witch, and who gave tea parties for the neighborhood cats...Eddie, the understudy bartender who believed that a man got just as drunk on half a glass as a whole one if he was in the mood to get drunk at all...and of course, Doc, owner and operator of the Western Biological Laboratory, with the hands of a brain surgeon, about whom they said he had helped many a girl out of one trouble and into another...