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Travels with Charley in Search of America (Penguin Twentieth-century Classics) Revised edition
John Steinbeck
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Travels with Charley in Search of America (Penguin Twentieth-century Classics) Revised edition
John Steinbeck
An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers
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 life?a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. Written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the South?which Steinbeck witnessed firsthand?Travels with Charley is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by Jay Parini.
Medie | Bøger Paperback Bog (Bog med blødt omslag og limet ryg) |
Udgivet | 1. april 1997 |
ISBN13 | 9780140187410 |
Forlag | Penguin Classics |
Antal sider | 210 |
Mål | 126 × 194 × 11 mm · 158 g |
Sprog | Engelsk |
Medvirkende | Jay Parini |
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