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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100140053204

ISBN-139780140053203

eBay Product ID (ePID)40643

Product Key Features

Book TitleTravels with Charley in Search of America

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicLiterary, American / General, Essays & Travelogues, United States / General

Publication Year1980

GenreLiterary Criticism, Travel, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorJohn Steinbeck

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight5.4 Oz

Item Length7.5 in

Item Width4.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN79-018785

Reviews"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 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

Dewey Edition21

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Dewey Decimal818/.5203 B

Grade ToUP

SynopsisAn intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers 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.

LC Classification NumberE169.02.S83 1986