Travels with Charley in Search of America: Steinbeck, John

Travel with John Steinbeck on an intimate journey across America as he rediscovers his country at the age of 58.

With his trusty French poodle Charley, Steinbeck drives the interstates and country roads, dining with truckers and encountering bears at Yellowstone.

Along the way, he reflects on the American character, racial hostility, and the particular form of American loneliness he finds almost everywhere.

This journey is a pungent potpourri of places and people interspersed with bittersweet essays on growing old, giant sequoias, and the reasons why strangers are kind.

Experience Steinbeck's honest and moving book, superior to his other works, as he frames a picture of human nature in the twentieth century that will not soon be surpassed.