Travels with Charley: In Search of America - Softcover

Steinbeck, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812417836 ISBN 13: 9780812417838

Publisher: PERFECTION LEARNING CORP, 1980

Synopsis

Travels with Charley 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. Full description

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"Pure delight, a pungent potpourri of places and people interspersed with bittersweet essays on everything from the emotional difficulties of growing old to the reasons why giant sequoias arouse such awe." --The New York Times Book Review

"Profound, sympathetic, often angry . . . an honest moving book by one of our great writers." --The San Francisco Examiner

"This is superior Steinbeck--a muscular, evocative report of a journey of rediscovery." --John Barkham, Saturday Review Syndicate

"The eager, sensuous pages in which he writes about what he found and whom he encountered frame a picture of our human nature in the twentieth century which will not soon be surpassed." --Edward Weeks, The Atlantic Monthly

Pure delight, a pungent potpourri of places and people interspersed with bittersweet essays on everything from the emotional difficulties of growing old to the reasons why giant sequoias arouse such awe. The New York Times Book Review

Profound, sympathetic, often angry . . . an honest moving book by one of our great writers. The San Francisco Examiner

This is superior Steinbecka muscular, evocative report of a journey of rediscovery. John Barkham, Saturday Review Syndicate

The eager, sensuous pages in which he writes about what he found and whom he encountered frame a picture of our human nature in the twentieth century which will not soon be surpassed. Edward Weeks, The Atlantic Monthly

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-Pure delight, a pungent potpourri of places and people interspersed with bittersweet essays on everything from the emotional difficulties of growing old to the reasons why giant sequoias arouse such awe.- --The New York Times Book Review

-Profound, sympathetic, often angry . . . an honest moving book by one of our great writers.- --The San Francisco Examiner

-This is superior Steinbeck--a muscular, evocative report of a journey of rediscovery.- --John Barkham, Saturday Review Syndicate

-The eager, sensuous pages in which he writes about what he found and whom he encountered frame a picture of our human nature in the twentieth century which will not soon be surpassed.- --Edward Weeks, The Atlantic Monthly

Book Description

John Steinbeck's account of an astonishing journey across America

Edition details

• Publisher: PERFECTION LEARNING CORP
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812417836
• ISBN 13: 9780812417838
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277