Travels with Charley
eBook Details
| Title: | Travels with Charley | ||||||
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| Published: | 1962 | ||||||
| Publisher: | Bantam Books | ||||||
| Tags: | non-fiction, U.S.A. | ||||||
| Description: | 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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| Pages: | 190 |
Steinbeck, John:
John Steinbeck (1902-1968) was one of the great American writers. He was known for writing books filled with social criticism such as Tortilla Flats and The Grapes of Wrath. He won the Nobel Prize in 1962 for his “realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception.”
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