Sweet Thursday, John Steinbeck
Sweet Thursday, John Steinbeck
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Sweet Thursday

Author: John Steinbeck

Narrator: Jerry Farden

Unabridged: 8 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 06/15/2011


Synopsis

"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

In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that is just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of Cannery Row, the weedy lots and junk heaps and flophouses of Monterey, John Steinbeck once more brings to life the denizens of a netherworld of laughter and tears--from Fauna, new headmistress of the local brothel, to Hazel, a bum whose mother must have wanted a daughter.

"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, born in Salinas, California, in 1902, grew up in a fertile agricultural valley, about 25 miles from the Pacific Coast. Both the valley and the coast would serve as settings for some of his best fiction. In 1919 he went to Stanford University, where he intermittently enrolled in literature and writing courses until he left in 1925 without taking a degree. During the next five years he supported himself as a laborer and journalist in New York City, all the time working on his first novel, Cup of Gold (1929). After marriage and a move to Pacific Grove, he published two California books, The Pastures of Heaven (1932) and To a God Unknown (1933), and worked on short stories later collected in The Long Valley (1938). Popular success and financial security came only with Tortilla Flat (1935), stories about Monterey’s paisanos. A ceaseless experimenter throughout his career, Steinbeck changed courses regularly. Three powerful novels of the late 1930s focused on the California laboring class: In Dubious Battle (1936), Of Mice and Men (1937), and the book considered by many his finest, The Grapes of Wrath (1939). The Grapes of Wrath won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1939.Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, and, in 1964, he was presented with the United States Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Steinbeck died in New York in 1968. Today, more than 30 years after his death, he remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures.Jerry Farden has narrated several of John Steinbeck’s books, including Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday. Other books he has narrated include The Blue Ice, Out on the Rim, and Crazy Heart.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on September 15, 2021

In Sweet Thursday – as he earlier did in Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row – John Steinbeck, in a jolly way, romanticizes living on the fringes of society. In Cannery Row, there are two monumental establishments: Doc’s Laboratory and Fauna’s whorehouse… Failing to complete his biological research......more

Goodreads review by Henry on March 15, 2025

Far, far away in space and time the winds blow but the shadows remain, as the unencumbered specks of dust fall nothing is seen or felt on their lonely path until the particles gently reach the ground in the sunny day, though if the eyes look they will not see (in old Monterey). Atoms live forever bu......more

Goodreads review by PattyMacDotComma on October 27, 2023

5★ “He rejected the theory of private ownership of removable property almost from birth.” That’s the view of Joseph and Mary Rivas, the Mexican fellow who bought Lee Chong’s grocery/emporium while Doc was away fighting in World War Two. Joseph and Mary was born cheating and has trouble doing anything......more

Goodreads review by Lawyer on April 07, 2017

Sweet Thursday: Cannery Row Redux The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.-Happy Thought, from a Child's Garden of Verse, Robert Louis Steverson If you love the works of John Steinbeck as I do, it does not matter whether the critics have labeled one of h......more


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By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature