Susan Shillinglaw Books

Flophouses, honky-tonks, whore-houses, coulour and nostalgia - this is Cannery Row... Cannery Row is the home of the enigmatic grocer, Lee Chong, of the boozy, boisterous Mack and the boys, of Dora and her girls at the Bear Flag, and of Doc, whose mind has no horizon and whose sympathy has no warp... And when Mack and the boys decide to give Doc a party, the whole Row is involved in the chaotic, disastrous and hilarious results...

In this masterful account set in Norway during World War II, Steinbeck explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. Occupied by Nazi troops, a small, peaceable town comes face to face with evil imposed from the outside--and betrayal born within the close-knit community. (2nd work) Set in the California apple country this novel portrays a strike by migrant workers that metamorphoses from principled defiance into blind fanaticism.