Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Paperback - 2012
by John Steinbeck; Introduction by Jay Parini
At age 58, Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America. This chronicle of their trip meanders from small towns, to growing cities, and to glorious wilderness oases.
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The 50th anniversary deluxe edition of Travels with Charley in Search of America features an updated introduction by Jay Parini and first edition cover art and illustrated maps of Steinbeck’s route by Don Freeman.
In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. To reassure himself, he set out on a voyage of rediscovery of the American identity, accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley; and riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante.
His course took him through almost forty states: northward from Long Island to Maine; through the Midwest to Chicago; onward by way of Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana (with which he fell in love), and Idaho to Seattle, south to San Francisco and his birthplace, Salinas; eastward through the Mojave, New Mexico, Arizona, to the vast hospitality of Texas, to New Orleans and a shocking drama of desegregation; finally, on the last leg, through Alabama, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey to New York.
Travels with Charley in Search of America is an intimate look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his lifea self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. Written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the Southwhich Steinbeck witnessed firsthandTravels with Charley is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade.
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- Title Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
- Author John Steinbeck; Introduction by Jay Parini
- Binding Paperback
- Edition DLX ANV
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Date 2012-10-02
- Features Bibliography, Deckle Edges, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780143107002 / 0143107003
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.8 in (21.08 x 13.72 x 2.03 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1010
- Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 20th century, United States - Description and travel
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012028431
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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