Travels with Charley: In Search of America [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Steinbeck, John

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ISBN 10: 0140053204 ISBN 13: 9780140053203

Casa editrice: Penguin Publishing Group, 1980

Riassunto

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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Recensione:

“Pure delight, a pungent potpourri of places and people interspersed with bittersweet essays on everything from the emotional difficulties of growing old to the reasons why giant sequoias arouse such awe.” The New York Times Book Review

“Profound, sympathetic, often angry . . . an honest moving book by one of our great writers.” The San Francisco Examiner

“This is superior Steinbeck a muscular, evocative report of a journey of rediscovery.” John Barkham, Saturday Review Syndicate

“The eager, sensuous pages in which he writes about what he found and whom he encountered frame a picture of our human nature in the twentieth century which will not soon be surpassed.” Edward Weeks, The Atlantic Monthly

L'autore:

John Steinbeck (1902-68) is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. During the 1930s, his works included The Red Pony, Pastures of Heaven, Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle, and Of Mice and Men. The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, earned him a Pulitzer Prize. In 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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• Editore: Penguin Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0140053204
• ISBN 13: 9780140053203
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288