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Pageturners Book Discussion Group June Daytime Meeting

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Pageturners Book Discussion Group June Daytime Meeting

by Central West Libraries

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Wed., 9 June 2021

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm AEST

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Orange Library (part of Central West Libraries)

Civic Square

147 Byng Street

Orange, NSW 2800

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Join us for a discussion about the classic American read Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

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In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful blend of misfits - gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists - survive side by side in a jumble of adventure and mischief. Lee Chong, the astute owner of the well-stocked grocery store, is also the proprietor of the Palace Flophouse that Mack and his troupe of good-natured 'boys' call home. Dora runs the brothel with clockwork efficiency and a generous heart, and Doc is the fount of all wisdom. Packed with invention and joie de vivre Cannery Row is Steinbeck's high-spirited tribute to his native California.

John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was an American author and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception." He has been called "a giant of American letters," and many of his works are considered classics of Western literature.

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