Travels With Charley

In Search of America

Tapa dura, 330 páginas

Idioma English

Publicado el 16 de Diciembre de 1986 por ISIS Large Print.

ISBN:
978-1-85089-102-4
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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 tress, 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. And he reflects on the American character, racial hostility, on a particular form of American loneliness he finds almost everywhere, and on the unexpected kindness of strangers that is also a very real part of our national identity. "Pure delight, a pungent potpourri of places and people interspersed with bittersweet essays on everything from the emotional difficulties of growing old to the …

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Era una lectura que me estaba dejando bastante frío hasta que al final remontó lo suficiente para dejarme un buen sabor de boca pero sin llegar a volverme loco. Supongo que en el fondo los libros de viajes me gustan en la medida en que me permiten fantasear con replicar esos viajes por mi cuenta. Pero si el viaje en cuestión está muy encuadrado en un momento concreto de la historia mi interés cae en picado.

Temas

  • Large type books
  • United States
  • Essays & Travelogues
  • Biography
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • Travel - United States
  • Large Print
  • Literary
  • 20th century
  • Authors, American
  • United States - General
  • 1960-1980
  • Description and travel