Sweet Thursday

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Sweet Thursday is a 1954 novel by John Steinbeck that revisits the characters and setting of Cannery Row in post–World War II Monterey, California.

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Sweet Thursday canonical 8

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Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
adaptationType stage musical
adaptedAs musical Pipe Dream
adaptedBy Oscar Hammerstein II
Richard Rodgers NERFINISHED
author John Steinbeck
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
firstEditionFormat hardcover
followedBy Cannery Row
surface form: Cannery Row: The Play
follows Cannery Row
genre fiction
novel
social novel
hasCharacter Dora Flood
Fauna
Lee Chong
The Boys
hasISBN 0140187480
hasMotif economic hardship
friendship
science and marine biology
hasNarrativePerspective third-person narration
hasTheme community
love
postwar disillusionment
redemption
language English
literaryMovement Realism
surface form: American realism
literarySeries Cannery Row
surface form: Cannery Row series
mainCharacter Doc
Hazel
Mack
Suzy
mediaType print
notableFor depiction of life on Cannery Row after World War II
revisiting characters from Cannery Row
pageCount 273 (approximate, depending on edition)
placeInAuthorOeuvre late work of John Steinbeck
precededBy Cannery Row
publicationDate 1954
publisher The Viking Press
surface form: Viking Press
settingLocation Cannery Row, Monterey, California (fictional setting)
surface form: Cannery Row

Monterey
surface form: Monterey, California
settingTime post–World War II
titleOrigin phrase used by character Doc to describe the day when everything goes right

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Cannery Row hasSequel Sweet Thursday
Pipe Dream basedOn Sweet Thursday
Pipe Dream adaptedFrom Sweet Thursday
Doc appearsIn Sweet Thursday
Lee Chong appearsIn Sweet Thursday
Hazel appearsIn Sweet Thursday
Hazel sequelAppearance Sweet Thursday
The Boys appearsIn Sweet Thursday
subject surface form: The Boys (Cannery Row)