Research Catalog

Title

Sweet Thursday / John Steinbeck ; introduction by Robert Demott.

Author

Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968

Publication

New York : Penguin Books, 2008.

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Details

Description

xxxvi, 249 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that are just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of Cannery Row, the weedy lots and junk heaps and flophouses of Monterey, John Steinbeck once more brings to life the denizens of a netherworld of laughter and tears, from Fauna, new headmistress of the local brothel, to Hazel, a bum whose mother must have wanted a daughter.

Series Statement

Penguin classics

Uniform Title

Penguin classics.

Subjects

• Humorous fiction
• Monterey (Calif.) > Fiction

Genre/Form

Humorous fiction

Note

• Sequel to: Cannery Row.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxvii]-xxxii).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Robert Demott -- 1. What Happened In Between -- 2. The Troubled Life of Joseph and Mary -- 3. Hooptedoodle (1) -- 4. There Would Be No Game -- 5. Enter Suzy -- 6. The Creative Cross -- 7. Tinder Is as Tinder Does -- 8. The Great Roque War -- 9. Whom the Gods Love They Drive Nuts -- 10. There's a Hole in Reality through which We Can Look if We Wish -- 11. Hazel's Brooding -- 12. Flower in a Crannied Wall -- 13. Parallels Must Be Related -- 14. Lousy Wednesday -- 15. The Playing Fields of Harrow -- 16. The Little Flowers of Saint Mack -- 17. Suzy Binds the Cheese -- 18. A Pause in the Day's Occupation -- 19. Sweet Thursday (1) -- 20. Sweet Thursday (2) -- 21. Sweet Thursday Was One Hell of a Day -- 22. The Arming -- 23. One Night of Love -- 24. Waiting Friday -- 25. Old Jingleballicks -- 26. The Developing Storm -- 27. O Frabjous Day! -- 28. Where Alfred the Sacred River Ran -- 29. Oh, Woe, Woe, Woe! -- 30. A President Is Born -- 31. The Thorny Path of Greatness -- 32. Hazel's Quest -- 33. The Distant Drum -- 34. The Deep-Dish Set-Down -- 35. Il n'y a pas de mouches sur la grandmere -- 36. Lama Sabachthani? -- 37. Little Chapter -- 38. Hooptedoodle (2), or The Pacific Grove Butterfly Festival -- 39. Sweet Thursday Revisited -- 40. I'm Sure We Should All Be as Happy as Kings.

ISBN

• 9780143039471
• 0143039474

LCCN

^^2008016040

OCLC

• 221962330
• SCSB-10925129

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library