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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780142000700 |
Powells.com Staff Pick
Wanderlust is a pervasive, seemingly incurable "virus of restlessness."
Not contagious in any clinical sense, you either have it or you don't.
John Steinbeck did, in spades. As the 1960s commenced, Steinbeck,
according to his oldest son, sensed his impending twilight, and thus set
out with his French poodle, Charley, to see his country a final time.
Spanning nearly 10,000 miles — from New York, through New England, across
the northern U.S. border, into the Pacific Northwest, down through
California and the Southwest, across Texas and the Deep South, and back up
to the Empire State — Travels with Charley is a classic travelogue full of
hope and heartbreak. Steinbeck's journey showed him an America of utter
abundance, full of wrenching beauty, yet also replete with deplorable
excess and intolerance. Nearly 50 years later, the book's candid
observations remain both poignant and pertinent, a literary snapshot of a
nation whose idyllic portrayal of itself never quite lives up to its
reality.
Recommended by Jeremy, Powells.com
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beachbum98547, December 12, 2007 (view all comments by beachbum98547)
A timeless travelogue, which touches all who have read his books, putting a personal touch for me to have lived in a town he visited(Butte) and had gone often to the sport shop he went to in passing. Sometimes just the wisp of of that passing kinders being touched by greatness...........
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780142000700
- Subtitle:
- In Search of America
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books
- Location:
- New York
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Biography
- Subject:
- United states
- Subject:
- United States - General
- Subject:
- Essays & Travelogues
- Subject:
- Authors, American
- Subject:
- Literary
- Copyright:
- 1990
- Edition Description:
- Centennial
- Series Volume:
- 71
- Publication Date:
- February 2002
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 214
- Dimensions:
- 8.47x5.64x.63 in. .61 lbs.










