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I love `Travels with Charley: In Search of America', maybe that's because I like travelogues or maybe it's because I love Steinbeck's sublime eloquence, but whatever the reason, this made for one beautiful and captivating read. Travelling with Steinbeck and his poodle Charley you get to experience a slice of American life that is sadly no more.
- John Steinbeck
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16 de feb. de 2017 · Steinbeck emphasizes this theme throughout Travels with Charley, but as he pauses to spend time in Sauk Center, Minnesota—home of early Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis, the novelist best known for his fiction about small-town America in Main Street and Babbitt —he doubles down on this thematic emphasis.
2 de oct. de 2012 · Written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the South—which Steinbeck witnessed firsthand— Travels with Charley is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition also features French flaps and deckle-edged paper.
Hitchhiker. Steinbeck offers a white man of about thirty with stringy blonde hair a ride on his way out of New Orleans. The hitchhiker reveals his belief that the Cheerleaders are "doing their duty" in trying to run the African American children out of the school (204). Dismayed, Steinbeck eventually tells the man to get out of the car, and in ...
Copy text. “I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.”. ― John Steinbeck, quote from Travels with Charley: In Search of America. Copy text. “We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.”.
As ever, Steinbeck has a keen eye for transactions among people, and Travels with Charley is full of them. Every few days or so, Steinbeck would stop at a motel, not for the bed but for “the sake of hot, luxurious bathing.” In this regard, Travels with Charley has something in common with Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov’s classic novel of the ...
