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| Original Title: | Travels with Charley: In Search of America |
| ISBN: | 0142000701 (ISBN13: 9780142000700) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | John Steinbeck, Charley (Travels with Charley) |
| Setting: | United States of America |
John Steinbeck
Paperback | Pages: 214 pages Rating: 4.08 | 65758 Users | 4893 Reviews
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| Title | : | Travels with Charley: In Search of America |
| Author | : | John Steinbeck |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 214 pages |
| Published | : | February 5th 2002 by Penguin (first published 1962) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Travel. Classics. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Literature. Biography Memoir |
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A quest across America, from the northernmost tip of Maine to California’s Monterey Peninsula To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, 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. Along the way he reflects on the American character, racial hostility, the particular form of American loneliness he finds almost everywhere, and the unexpected kindness of strangers.Rating Appertaining To Books Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Ratings: 4.08 From 65758 Users | 4893 ReviewsCrit Appertaining To Books Travels with Charley: In Search of America
When I chose this title of Steinbeck to the bookstore, I did not knew exactly what I expect, not knowing the title. But I imagined a journey across a large part of United States, many meetings and a kind of report on the 1960's America. Somewhat a journalist's book. In fact over the eleven weeks Steinbeck toured the USA. If there are meetings, often over a bottle, they do not learn much about the region in which they take place. Except perhaps in the South. Let us recall that he'd voyaged inA nice way to travel 1960s America again is to hop into a camper truck with John Steinbeck and his dog, Charley. Plagued by a chronic disease and probably feeling like it was now or never, Mr. Steinbeck hit the road from his home in Sag Harbor and traveled across the states and back again, making astute observations as he went and sharing a bit of the flavor of America in this moment of great upheaval and change. I was afraid this might be boring, like watching someone elses home movies (no
dude, steinbeck is so much better than kerouac.and i know that is a totally obvious statement, but if i want to read a story about a man traveling across america and describing his findings, it is going to be a man with a varied vocabulary, a keen eye for detail, and some powers of interpreting his experiences. john, i am listening...this is my first nonfiction from steinbeck, and i am impressed with how conversational it reads. he has a real skill in making his experiences near-visible to the
Man, this book came so exactly at the right time in my life. I think I was about thirteen or fourteen. I went back to the ancestral home in Illinois, and my cousins were getting rid of some books. One of them was Travels With Charley. I read it while we were driving back home. I think I made my family's life a living hell by comparing them constantly to Steinbeck and Charlie's trip across the country. Oh, well. Sometimes the families of readers have to suffer.
My father bought me this book when I was probably about eight years old, and I read it quickly and fell in love with it. One day (now that I've thought of it, probably sooner than later) I'll reread it, but for now I'm content believing I would still find it a good read.
How often I have wished to do this: just get on the road and head off for destinations unknown. Searching for America John Steinbeck also finds out more about himself - via the intersection of "Examined Life" avenue and "Socratic" lane.
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