![]() ![]() When I first read it, Steinbeck’s book caught me at an opportune moment. ![]() How could I not be influenced? Like Hemingway, Steinbeck’s is a voice with an authoritative tone. It was the time I discovered Jack Kerouac who also influenced me. That is probably why I link him and Steinbeck. Hemingway was another of those writers I read at the time I read Travels With Charlie. ![]() He is one of those great figures of American literature. Remember, Steinbeck was the man who wrote the classic, Grapes of Wrath, as well as other well-read and studied novels-with-a-basis-in-fact. The writing is a little different in style to what we find these days. It is a travelog, a story of his journey in his truck-camper across the USA, a story of the places he drove through and the people he met in them. ![]() Steinbeck’s book speaks of a different America, one now long gone. Then, I found it a good read, much as I was rediscovering it to be now. Rereading it, I should say, for I first read the book back in the seventies, I think it was, back in my restless years. I indulged in this bout of laziness while reading John Steinbeck’s Travels With Charley-In Search of America. ![]()
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