Sweet Thursday

A sequel to Cannery Row, this book captures events in Cannery Row after the end of the war. The familiar doc returns to town to find old friends and some new characters. Flora runs the finishing school for girls while Joseph and Mary Rivas(single person) has taken over the grocery Store. A new girl Suzy comes to town. Even though she does a good job hustling, she is deemed too classy for that line of work. The doc's well meaning friends find him depressed and try to hook him up with Suzy in this classic love story of a novel.

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The novel was turned into a broadway musical called Pipe Dream by Rodgers/Hammerstein and was nominated for nine Tony Awards.

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