Travels with Charley in Search of America
by John Steinbeck

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Book Review: America Discovered
Summary: 4 Stars

This book enables you to sit at the table of his converted truck, while Steinbeck filters insights of the ordinary lives he has obsevered. The author delights in the individuallity of each person he meets, whatever their circumstances. He takes the words of farm workers, truckers, and filling station men and displays them against the backdrop of his country as profound representations and insights of the state of the nation. Some restore your faith, some make you despair, some are impatient and others just resigned to the way things are.

Steinbecks style is easy and relaxed. A writer with nothing to prove he tells it as it is. No pretences, no cover ups, just honest dialogue.

There's no great "adventure" here, so if plot lines are your thing then you'll be disappointed. But if your interest is in geting an insight into peoples lives, this is the book for you.

I would suggest that you read some other Steinbeck first - The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden and, if you can get hold of it, To a God Unknown

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