Sweet Thursday

by Steinbeck, John; DeMott, Robert; DeMott, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780143039471
• ISBN10: 0143039474
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-29
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

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 is 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. Book jacket.

Author Biography

John Steinbeck (1902-û1968), winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, achieved popular success in 1935 when he published Tortilla Flat. He went on to write more than twenty-five novels, including The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. Robert DeMot t is the Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor at Ohio University.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. xxvii
Prologue	p. xxxv
What Happened In Between	p. 1
The Troubled Life of Joseph and Mary	p. 8
Hooptedoodle (1)	p. 14
There Would Be No Game	p. 24
Enter Suzy	p. 26
The Creative Cross	p. 33
Tinder Is as Tinder Does	p. 37
The Great Roque War	p. 44
Whom the Gods Love They Drive Nuts	p. 47
There's a Hole in Reality through which We Can Look if We Wish	p. 53
Hazel's Brooding	p. 60
Flower in a Crannied Wall	p. 66
Parallels Must Be Related	p. 68
Lousy Wednesday	p. 70
The Playing Fields of Harrow	p. 74
The Little Flowers of Saint Mack	p. 80
Suzy Binds the Cheese	p. 86
A Pause in the Day's Occupation	p. 91
Sweet Thursday (1)	p. 101
Sweet Thursday (2)	p. 107
Sweet Thursday Was One Hell of a Day	p. 112
The Arming	p. 117
One Night of Love	p. 123
Waiting Friday	p. 129
Old Jingleballicks	p. 134
The Developing Storm	p. 143
O Frabjous Day!	p. 146
Where Alfred the Sacred River Ran	p. 156
Oh, Woe, Woe, Woe!	p. 165
A President Is Born	p. 174
The Thorny Path of Greatness	p. 179
Hazel's Quest	p. 181
The Distant Drum	p. 194
The Deep-Dish Set-Down	p. 198
Il n'y a pas de mouches sur la grandmere	p. 200
Lama Sabachthani?	p. 209
Little Chapter	p. 212
Hooptedoodle (2), or The Pacific Grove Butterfly Festival	p. 213
Sweet Thursday Revisited	p. 216
I'm Sure We Should All Be as Happy as Kings	p. 223
Notes	p. 227
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