“I had an edition with an introduction by Susan Shillinglaw. I learned much about John Steinbeck. Cannery Row was born out of loss - of self, of his California home, of the friend who sustained him, and of certainty in a meaningful world. Following the war the streets of Montery came to syumbolize for Steinbeck life - Shillinglaw said, "By envisioning Rickett's ideas he could call forth is own; Cannery Row is Steinbecks fullest expression of the complex interdependence of man, nature, and...”