"There's a joke among book reviewers that every new novelist writes a book that's lyrical. This one really is."
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"There's a joke among book reviewers that every new novelist writes a book that's lyrical. This one really is."
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"In Cannery Row, Steinbeck portrayed the region in all its dingy, scrappy charm. Hatton blends Steinbeck’s nostalgia with a contemporary sensibility regarding her city, examining its quirks as astutely as Ricketts once studied marine life under his microscope. In her novel, Cannery Row itself becomes a protagonist, by turns vibrant and lethargic, seedy practicality struggling up over decades to flower into international renown."
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MONTEREY BAY in the year's top 100
I accept this honor on behalf of old crones everywhere.
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"Hatton—who spent summers working at the Monterey Bay Aquarium on modern-day Cannery Row—leverages John Steinbeck’s predicament and Ed Ricketts’s reputation as a lover of women not his wife in her tale of an anti-ingenue’s coming of age among flawed men in an era less sexually prohibitive than our own."
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