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Lädt ... Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Centennial Edition) (Original 1962; 2002. Auflage)von John Steinbeck (Autor)
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Really enjoyed this travelogue narrated by the late, great Ron McLarty. Made a nice break from my regular fiction. Ya gotta like Steinbeck. Surprising how timely it is now since his trip took place in 1960. Recommended ( ) Travels with Charley is a great story of Steinbeck‘s road trip around America. While it dances on the line between fiction and non-fiction, it succeeds beautifully in capturing both the essence of wanderlust and a telling snapshot in time of the US. At times I wished I had read this in print so that I could highlight some of its many memorable passages, but then I would have missed this excellent feat of audiobook narration by Gary Sinise. I love Charley. He's a lovely dog. Fft. I loved the way Steinbeck treated Charley. Double Fft. Steinbeck's travelogue was pretty darn good. I enjoyed reading it, although I don't know what took so long. It wasn't as good as Twain's roaming journals, but most of it hit a nostalgic note for a time before I hit the earth. None of it was real. He was looking at it through the eyes of an older man, and I was grateful for his perspective.
Steinbeck’s book-length account of his journey, “Travels With Charley: In Search of America,” published in 1962, was generally well reviewed and became a best-seller. It remains in print, regarded by some as a classic of American travel writing. Almost from the beginning, though, a few readers pointed out that many of the conversations in the book had a stagey, wooden quality, not unlike the dialogue in Steinbeck’s fiction. Early on in the book, for example, Steinbeck has a New England farmer talking in folksy terms about Nikita S. Khrushchev’s shoe-pounding (or -brandishing, depending on whom you ask) speech at the United Nations weeks before Khrushchev actually visited the United Nations. A particularly unlikely encounter occurs at a campsite near Alice, N.D., where a Shakespearean actor, mistaking Steinbeck for a fellow thespian, greets him with a sweeping bow, saying, “I see you are of the profession,” and then proceeds to talk about John Gielgud. Even Steinbeck’s son John said he was convinced that his father never talked to many of the people he wrote about, and added, “He just sat in his camper and wrote all that [expletive].” Gehört zu VerlagsreihenCOLECÇÃO DOIS MUNDOS (Livros do Brasil) — 6 mehr Ist enthalten inCannery Row | East of Eden | Grapes of Wrath | Of Mice and Men | The Pearl | Travels with Charley von John Steinbeck Setinbeck Hardcover Collection: Tortilla Flat, The Winter of Our Discontent, East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, Travels with Charley, & The Long Valley von John Steinbeck Ist gekürzt inInspiriertHat als Erläuterung für Schüler oder StudentenAuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
Author John Steinbeck was 58 when he set out to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years. With his elderly French poodle, Charley, he embarked on a quest across America, from the northermost tip of Maine to California's Monterey Peninsula. Traveling the interstates and the country roads, they stopped to smell America: trucker and strangers, old friends and new acquaintances. Steinbeck's poignant, perceptive reflections reveal the American character: a blend of unexpected kindnesses and racial hostilities, loneliness and humor. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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