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Travels with Charley: In Search of America

by John Steinbeck

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Knowing he was dying, John Steinbeck customized a camper-truck and dubbed it Rocinante after Don Quixote's horse. With his dog Charley (Steinbeck's own Sancho Panza) riding along, the melancholic writer circumnavigates the country. This travelogue captures a 1960s America in the Nobel Prize-winning prose that has proven timeless.
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To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the tress, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years.

With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates and the country roads, dines with truckers, encounters bears at Yellowstone and old friends in San Francisco. And he reflects on the American character, racial hostility, on a particular form of American loneliness he finds almost everywhere, and on the unexpected kindness of strangers that is also a very real part of our national identity.

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With his dog Charley, John Steinbeck set out in his truck to explore and experience America in the 1960s. As he talked with all kinds of people, he sadly noted the passing of region speech, fell in love with Montana, and was appalled by racism in New Orleans.

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what shocked me most about this book was how many observations are still relevant today, and how many of predictions came true.
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Steinbeck never wastes a single word. Honest and heartbreaking but the writing is so lovely, you will still enjoy the story.
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ISBN:
9780140053203
Author:
Steinbeck, John
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Biography
Subject:
United states
Subject:
United States - General
Subject:
Essays & Travelogues
Subject:
Authors, American
Subject:
United States Description and travel.
Subject:
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Travel
Subject:
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Subject:
Travel Writing-General
Copyright:
c196
Edition Description:
B-Mass Market
Publication Date:
19800131
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
from 12
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
288
Dimensions:
5 x 7 x 1 in 0.39 lb
Age Level:
from 18
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Knowing he was dying, John Steinbeck customized a camper-truck and dubbed it Rocinante after Don Quixote's horse. With his dog Charley (Steinbeck's own Sancho Panza) riding along, the melancholic writer circumnavigates the country. This travelogue captures a 1960s America in the Nobel Prize-winning prose that has proven timeless.

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"Synopsis" by , With his dog Charley, John Steinbeck set out in his truck to explore and experience America in the 1960s. As he talked with all kinds of people, he sadly noted the passing of region speech, fell in love with Montana, and was appalled by racism in New Orleans.

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