Sweet Thursday

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Sweet Thursday is a 1954 novel by John Steinbeck. It is a sequel to Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row and captures events in Cannery Row after the end of World War II.

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. J and M is known for his exploits that are not leqal, but Doc's honsety facinates him. 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. Doc's well meaning friends find him depressed and try to hook him up with Suzy in this classic love story of a novel.

The novel opens with Mack describing how the book should go, and the story is told like that.

The novel was derived from Steinbeck's "book" for the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical, Pipe Dream (which was nominated for nine Tony Awards).

According to John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday is the day after Lousy Wednesday.