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Travels with Charley in Search of America (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by John Steinbeck

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Publisher Comments:

In September 1960, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America. A picaresque tale, this chronicle of their trip meanders through scenic backroads and speeds along anonymous superhighways, moving from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. Travels with Charley in Search of America is animated by Steinbeck?s attention to the specific details of the natural world and his sense of how the lives of people are intimately connected to the rhythms of nature?to weather, geography, the cycle of the seasons. His keen ear for the transactions among people is evident, too, as he records the interests and obsessions that preoccupy the Americans he encounters along the way.

Travels with Charley in Search of America, originally published in 1962, provides an intimate and personal look at one of America?s most beloved writers in the later years of his life?a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. It was written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the South?which Steinbeck witnessed firsthand?and is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade.

Synopsis:

Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art.

Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readersand to the many who revisit them again and again.

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About the Author

JOHN STEINBECK (1902 &1968) was born in Salinas, California. He worked as a laborer and a journalist, and in 1935, when he published Tortilla Flat, he achieved popular success and financial security. Steinbeck wrote more than twenty-five novels and won the Nobel Prize in 1962.

Robert DeMott is the Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor at Ohio University and the author of Steinbeck's Typewriter, an award-winning book of critical essays.

Gary Scharnhorst is professor of English at the University of New Mexico. He is the editor of books by Bret Harte and John De Forest for Penguin Classics.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780140187410
Author:
Steinbeck, John
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Introduction:
Parini, Jay
Author:
Parini, Jay
Location:
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Biography
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Novels and novellas
Subject:
Literature
Subject:
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Subject:
Essays & Travelogues
Subject:
Authors, American
Subject:
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Copyright:
1997
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references p. xxiii.
Series:
Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century
Series Volume:
1918
Publication Date:
April 1997
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
240
Dimensions:
7.64x4.95x.45 in. .35 lbs.
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