Travels with Charley in Search of America

by John Steinbeck Narrated by Gary Sinise

Overview

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

Editorial Reviews

The Atlantic Monthy

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.

The San Francisco Examiner

Profound, sympathetic, often angry . . . an honest, moving book by one of our great writers.

The New York Times Book Review

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.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169442595
Publisher:	Penguin Random House
Publication date:	06/15/2011
Edition description:	Unabridged

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