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Travels with Charley in Search of America

By John Steinbeck
Introduction by Jay Parini

By John Steinbeck
Introduction by Jay Parini

By John Steinbeck

By John Steinbeck

By John Steinbeck
Introduction by Jay Parini

By John Steinbeck
Introduction by Jay Parini

By John Steinbeck
Read by Gary Sinise

By John Steinbeck
Read by Gary Sinise

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Apr 01, 1997 | ISBN 9780140187410

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Jan 31, 1980 | ISBN 9780140053203

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Jan 31, 1980 | ISBN 9781440638886

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    About Travels with Charley in Search of America

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

    A Penguin Classic

    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.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    About Travels with Charley in Search of America

    An 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.

    About Travels with Charley in Search of America

    An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in a deluxe centennial edition

    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 Deluxe Edition also features French flaps and deckle-edged paper.

    For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    About Travels with Charley in Search of America

    An 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.

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    About John Steinbeck

    John Steinbeck, born in Salinas, California, in 1902, grew up in a fertile agricultural valley, about 25 miles from the Pacific Coast. Both the valley and the coast would serve as settings for some of his best fiction. In 1919… More about John Steinbeck

    About John Steinbeck

    John Steinbeck, born in Salinas, California, in 1902, grew up in a fertile agricultural valley, about 25 miles from the Pacific Coast. Both the valley and the coast would serve as settings for some of his best fiction. In 1919… More about John Steinbeck

    About John Steinbeck

    John Steinbeck, born in Salinas, California, in 1902, grew up in a fertile agricultural valley, about 25 miles from the Pacific Coast. Both the valley and the coast would serve as settings for some of his best fiction. In 1919… More about John Steinbeck

    About John Steinbeck

    John Steinbeck, born in Salinas, California, in 1902, grew up in a fertile agricultural valley, about 25 miles from the Pacific Coast. Both the valley and the coast would serve as settings for some of his best fiction. In 1919… More about John Steinbeck

    Product Details

    Category: Travel Writing | Classic Nonfiction | Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs | U.S. History

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Apr 01, 1997 | 240 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780140187410

    Category: Travel Writing | Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs | U.S. History

    Paperback | $14.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jan 31, 1980 | 288 Pages | 4-3/16 x 7-1/2 | ISBN 9780140053203

    Category: Travel Writing | Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs | U.S. History

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jan 31, 1980 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9781440638886

    Category: Travel Writing | Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs | U.S. History | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $17.50
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Jun 15, 2011 | 479 Minutes | ISBN 9781101530979

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    Praise

    “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

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