Product Description

In Monterey, on the California Coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that's just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of CANNERY ROW, the weedy lots, junk heaps and flop houses of Monterey, Steinbeck once again brings to life the denizens of a netherworld of laughter and tears. The book is in many ways a statement about Steinbeck's greatest theme: the common bonds of humanity and love which make goodness and happiness possible.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17865 in Books
• Published on: 2000-11-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

About the Author
Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works will be available in Penguin Modern Classics.

Customer Reviews

Favorite
Of all the books I've read of Steinbeck this one is my favorite. I think the case is that this one express life in the fullest. It gives a true reflection of the ups and downs while at the same time conveys a sense of joy even in the hardest things and struggles in life. Highly recommended, but read 'Cannery Row' first for sure.

Feel-good follow-up to Cannery Row
I still remember my delight as a teenager when I discovered there was a follow-up to Cannery Row. I wasn't disappointed on reading it, neither have I been disappointed on several re-readings in the years since then.

Sweet Thursday is filled with the same places and characters (with some sad departures and some memorable new arrivals) as its predecessor, but the themes and feelings evoked are very different - it looks at Doc a lot more closely, exploring his character, the loneliness of his middle age, and his progress along the path to true love, with the questionable assistance of Mac and the boys.

If you liked Cannery Row, you can only LOVE Sweet Thursday!
In my opinion John Steinbeck is the most forceful, most truthful, most gentle and most loving storyteller available to the reading public. If you've read Cannery Row and enjoyed it... Sweet Thursday is pure joy and evokes just about every emotion, like real, immediately. You live the story with everyone in it, it's not like reading at all (except when you come to the end of the book!). If you'd like to read a book for pure enjoyment - just to have fun (except when you've got to cry because the pleasure's too painful) - this is the one. Anyone, who mostly likes people, can't help but love this story and all it's characters.
Just my opinion, but I HAD to tell you!