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TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY IN SEARCH OF AMERICA
By: 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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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 Steinbeckβs 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 natureβto 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 Americaβs most beloved writers in the later years of his lifeβa self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. It was written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the Southβwhich Steinbeck witnessed firsthandβand is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade.
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