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Travels with Charley
Travels with Charley
Author: John Steinbeck
Travels with Charley is a wandering story about John Steinbeck and his standard poodle Charlie as they circle the United States in a search for adventure. They meet many characters in many places in their search for, what, they don't really know. The story is as fresh and entertaining today as it was when I first read it in 1963. Gene C. (ORION9)
ISBN: 266735
Publication Date: 7/1964
Pages: 246
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Publisher: The Viking Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Probably the best book I've ever read. Steinbeck had a talent for observing people then describing it in a way that one immediately recognizes not only the sight, but the feeling it evokes.
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I really, really enjoyed this book. Sort of a diary of an older Steinbeck searching for what America is, a la middle aged Kerouac. It was well written and engaging. Small book that packs a lot of entertainment. Check it out.
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In 1960, when he was almost 60 years old, John Steinbeck set out to rediscover his native land. Accompanied only by a French pooodle named Charley, he traveled the length and the breadth of the United States. He outfought a hurricane in New York and drank cognac in Maine with a family of migrant farm workers. He renewed old acquaintances in California and attended a modern witches' sabbath in New Orleans. He saw things which stirred his anger and things which made him swell with pride.
"Profound, sympathetic, often angry....An honest, moving book by one of our great writers." - San Francisco Examiner
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Classic book. Read by high school and junior high school students everywhere.


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