A well-told collection of short stories that revolve around the community of Monterey Bay and its infamous fish canneries. Steinbeck is one of my all-time favourite authors, doing what so few twentieth-century writers do well, telling mens' stories and giving them a voice they would otherwise not find for themselves.

Other books by this author:

Cup of Gold (1927)
The Pastures of Heaven (1932)
The Red Pony (1933)
To a God Unknown (1933)
Tortilla Flat (1935)
The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath (1936)
In Dubious Battle (1936)
Of Mice and Men (1937)
The Long Valley (1938)
The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
Forgotten Village (1941)
Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research (1941)
The Moon Is Down (1942)
Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team (1942)
Cannery Row (1945)
The Wayward Bus (1947)
The Pearl (1947)
A Russian Journal (1948)
Burning Bright (1950)
The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951)
East of Eden (1952)
Sweet Thursday (1954)
The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication (1957)
Once There Was A War (1958)
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
Travels with Charley: In Search of America (1962)
America and Americans (1966)

Posthumous works:

Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters (1969)
Viva Zapata! (1975)
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)
Workings Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath (1989)

Not in the church but in the coffee shop, which is a lovely space to sit and read and the management are enlightened enough to have some bookshelves in a prominent place. You'll find this book there if someone else hasn't beaten you to it.

Havent read this for 30 years. Even better than I remember it, my favourite Steinbeck. The descriptions pull you in to the lives in Cannery Row.