Sweet Thursday

  • Author John Steinbeck
  • Narrator Jerry Farden
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Run Time 8 hours and 56 minutes
  • Format Audio
  • Genre Classic fiction.
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In Monterey, on the California Coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday - one of those days that's just bad from the start. But Sweet Thursday is sunny and clear, a day when anything can happen. Returning to the scene of Cannery Row, Steinbeck brilliantly creates its bawdy, high-spirited world of bums, drunks and hookers, telling the story of what happened to everyone after the war. There are colourful characters old and new, all united by love, laughter and tears: Fauna, the latest madam at the Bear Flag brothel, Doc, still there for everyone else but feeling strangely sad himself, and Suzy, the new hustler in town who might just be the girl to save him.

© John Steinbeck 1954 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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