Particularize Books To Travels with Charley: In Search of America
| Original Title: | Travels with Charley: In Search of America |
| ISBN: | 0142000701 (ISBN13: 9780142000700) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | John Steinbeck, Charley (Travels with Charley) |
| Setting: | United States of America |
John Steinbeck
Paperback | Pages: 214 pages Rating: 4.08 | 65758 Users | 4893 Reviews
Point Containing Books Travels with Charley: In Search of America
| Title | : | Travels with Charley: In Search of America |
| Author | : | John Steinbeck |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 214 pages |
| Published | : | February 5th 2002 by Penguin (first published 1962) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Travel. Classics. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Literature. Biography Memoir |
Relation Concering Books Travels with Charley: In Search of America
A quest across America, from the northernmost tip of Maine to California’s Monterey Peninsula 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.Rating Containing Books Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Ratings: 4.08 From 65758 Users | 4893 ReviewsDiscuss Containing Books Travels with Charley: In Search of America
I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any HERE. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move. The steed...Rocinante!John Steinbeck was not feeling very well before he decidedI saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any HERE. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move. The steed...Rocinante!John Steinbeck was not feeling very well before he decided
I hadn't expected to enjoy this book as much as I did. It was my first travelogue, and I only read it because, a) I was bored and b)I figured I couldn't go wrong with Steinbeck - a writer I already enjoyed reading (still do).But I have a wicked streak of wanderlust in me, too, and Steinbeck really caught me at a good time. It was Summertime, and I was already in a daydream-y mood. That mood lasted all through the book.I managed to get through the whole trip with the cranky writer, and he was
I have a feeling that if I had read Travels with Charley back in high school instead of The Grapes of Wrath or even Of Mice and Men, I would have actually liked Steinbeck rather than merely appreciated him.Part of my Steinbeck indifference was obviously influenced by my teenage attitude. At 15 there were other things I'd much rather have been doing than reading novels about the great depression. Also, I had that "what does this have to do with me" attitude I saw so frequently while trying to
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch, When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. I liked the idea that inspired this book: John Steinbeck, great American writer, decides to set off on a cross country exploration of America, a country he became
I came across this dusty hardcover at an estate sale last month. This particular edition from 1962 offered a crisp, weathered cover and an inviting sketch of a man, a dog and a truck.I hopped on board.This is Steinbeck, but not the Steinbeck of fiction, the one who stands behind his creations and his delicious use of silence and space. This is Steinbeck the man.Turns out that Steinbeck the man, here recorded for all time, in his late fifties was a bit depressed, recently diagnosed as being on
0 Comments:
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.