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MuzeFormatDesc: Audio Cassette
ISBN-10: 0453008976
ISBN-13: 9780453008976
Apr 1994
Publisher: Viking Pr
Language: English |
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* ML=ships from multiple locations, AE/AP/AA=ships from U.S. Military location.
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* ML=ships from multiple locations, AE/AP/AA=ships from U.S. Military location.
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Synopsis
John Steinbeck chronicles his attempts, as he travels from Long Island to California and back, to define what it is to be American. In the end, he concedes failure: it is impossible to generalize about his complicated homeland. However, his experiences add up to a delightful account of an eager and curious human being on the road--and of Charley the aging French poodle, an excellent and civilized companion and a memorable character in his own right.
| Size | | Height: | 7.3 in | | Width: | 4.5 in | | Thickness: | 2.2 in | | Weight: | 15.2 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch."
Industry Reviews
"Pure delight, a pungent potpourri of places and people interspersed with bittersweet essays on everything from the emotional difficulties of growing old to the reasons why giant sequoias arouse such awe."
"[T]he eager, sensuous pages in which he writes about what he found and whom he encountered frame a picture of our human nature in the twentieth century which will not soon be surpassed....This is a book to be read slowly for its savor, and one which, like Thoreau, will be quoted and measured by our own experience."
Atlantic Monthly - Edward Weeks (08/01/1962)
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