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Travels with Charley in Search of America
John Steinbeck
Last Major Work by Steinbeck
Penguin
February 1980
On Sale: January 31, 1980
288 pages
ISBN: 0140053204
EAN: 9780140053203
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Literature and Fiction Classics | Non-Fiction Memoir
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.
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