Bibliograph

Travels with Charley, in search of America, John Steinbeck ; introduction by Jay Parini

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Travels with Charley, in search of America, John Steinbeck ; introduction by Jay Parini

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page xxvii)

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Travels with Charley

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

800721202

Responsibility statement

John Steinbeck ; introduction by Jay Parini

Series statement

Penguin classics deluxe edition

Sub title

in search of America

Summary

In September 1960, at age fifty-eight, the author and his poodle, Charley, riding in a three-quarter ton pickup truck named Rocinante, embarked on a journey across America. This chronicle of their trip through almost 40 states, meanders from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. Providing an intimate look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life, this is 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 he witnessed firsthand, this is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade

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Travels with Charley

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