The 50th anniversary deluxe edition of Travels with Charley in
Search of America features an updated introduction by Jay Parini
and first edition cover art and illustrated maps of Steinbeck's
route by Don Freeman.
In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across
America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country,
with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and
quality of light, the pulse of its people. To reassure himself, he
set out on a voyage of rediscovery of the American identity,
accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley; and
riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante.
His course took him through almost forty states: northward from
Long Island to Maine; through the Midwest to Chicago; onward by way
of Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana (with which he fell in love),
and Idaho to Seattle, south to San Francisco and his birthplace,
Salinas; eastward through the Mojave, New Mexico, Arizona, to the
vast hospitality of Texas, to New Orleans and a shocking drama of
desegregation; finally, on the last leg, through Alabama, Virginia,
Pennsylvania, and New Jersey to New York.
Travels with Charley in Search of America is an intimate look at
one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his
life--a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit
autobiography. 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.
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