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Travel writing · 1962

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

John Steinbeck

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Travel writing · 1962 · American · Modern

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

John Steinbeck

A late road trip across thirty-eight states with a poodle.

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Part reportage, part elegy for his own attention — best read against the ugliness he witnesses in New Orleans, which he refuses to soften.

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