Travels with Charley: In Search of America Contributor(s): Steinbeck, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0140053204 ISBN-13: 9780140053203 Publisher: Penguin Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: January 1980 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 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
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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