Friendship and mischief on Monterey's sunlit margins
Vintage Fair Condition - Heavily rubbed, creased and chipped covers and spine, with splits at the spine ends. Covers and page edges are browned and foxed. Personal name on title page, with a split lower inner gutter. Penguin edition 1950.
When Danny returns to Monterey and inherits two houses, he becomes the centre of a loose fellowship of paisanos whose ambitions rarely extend beyond friendship, wine and the next day's pleasures. Pilon and the others bring schemes, arguments and unexpected generosity to Danny's doorstep, turning his new property into the setting for a series of comic and poignant adventures. Beneath their idleness lies a complicated code of loyalty, as each man negotiates the demands of freedom, possession and belonging. John Steinbeck gives these unconventional companions the grandeur of an Arthurian brotherhood while keeping their lives rooted in the streets above Monterey. By turns affectionate, irreverent and melancholy, the novel explores the fragile community people create when they have little else to call their own.
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