... isn't my country anymore. And it won't be until I am dead. I makes me very sad." He left Monterey the next year and moved to New York. In 1945, his novel "Cannery Row", which was also set in Monterey, became published. In 1948, he moved from New York to Pacific Grove to examine the Californian's files of old newspapers to research, "East of ... ...

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