Travels with Charley in Search of America
An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers<BR> <BR> 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.<BR><BR> 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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An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers<BR> <BR> 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.<BR><BR> 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.
H | B | T | Gramm
188 mm | 104 mm | 19 mm | 165 gr
Erscheinungsjahr
1980
FSK
0
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Taschenbuch
Verlag
Penguin LLC US
ISBN-10
0140053204
ISBN-13
9780140053203
Autor
John Steinbeck
Sprache
Englisch
Seitenanzahl
288
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Biografien: Schriftsteller, Amerikanische Geschichte, Reiseberichte, Reiseliteratur, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA
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