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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Contributor(s): Steinbeck, John (Author)

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ISBN: 0140053204     ISBN-13: 9780140053203
Publisher: Penguin Books
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 1980
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Annotation: With his dog Charley, John Steinbeck set out in his truck to explore and experience America in the 1960s. As he talked with all kinds of people, he sadly noted the passing of region speech, fell in love with Montana, and was appalled by racism in New Orleans.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Travel | Essays & Travelogues
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- History | United States - General
Dewey: B
LCCN: 79018785
Age Level: 18-UP
Grade Level: 13-UP
Lexile Measure: 1010(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 4.2" W x 7.4" L (0.40 lbs) 288 pages
Features: Ikids, Price on Product
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 57198
Reading Level: 6.7   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 13.0
 
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Publisher Description:
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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