Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck'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.'Meet the gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists of Cannery Row in Monterey, California, during the Great Depression. They want to throw a party for their friend Doc, so Mack and the boys set about, in their own inimitable way, recruiting everyone in the neighbourhood to the cause. But along the way they can't help

the British are forced to confront the violent and often brutal years that lie ahead of them

Mum pretending she made the Christmas pudding

and give up dreams of financial independence

excavating without luck metre by metre

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Taleb challenges long-held beliefs about the values of those who spearhead military interventions

a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger

moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind

The Bastard of Istanbul

which are crucial for an expanding workforce

And in Summer Camus evocatively depicts the sunlit cities of Algiers and Oran

someone will open an old safe and find this confession