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Title: A Book That Creates A World
Review: "Cannery Row" is an unusual book in that it has almost no plot, which would seem essential to a short novel. However, rather than focusing on constantly moving forward in time, Steinbeck uses the novel to explore his setting in three dimensions and in all senses. The interchapters, which at first are rather bewildering and seem basically irrelevant, are entertaining and serve to enlighten the reader as to what is going on outside of the adventures of Mack and his boys, a few of the many inhabitants of Cannery Row. "Cannery Row" is highly underrepresented and undervalued in the world of literary criticism. It's a very rich and rewarding book in all its layers.
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