A later work, and more of a dark parable, this time set further south on the Gulf of California. Very bleak and not sure what the moral really is! Don't be greedy, don't try and improve your lot in life? There's no escape from the drudgery of daily life? Everyone is out to screw you? I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as those books set in the Salina Valley or on cannery Row where at least there is a love of the landscape and making it bloom or some humour. None of that in The Pearl.
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