John Steinbeck
Pet Travel Thursday Destination: The American Road Trip Book: Travels With Charley, In Search of America by John Steinbeck By Edie Jarolim Woe to the author who becomes a classic, especially one who has been awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature. The uninitiated reader — or the one who only knows the books assigned in [...]
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The Great American Road Trip Destination: Northern California (Monterey) Book: Cannery Row by John Steinbeck In Cannery Row, John Steinbeck makes poetry of an once ordinary place, Monterey California, and makes mythological figures of working men and women. (A little trick that he specialized in). In the introduction to Cannery Row, he asks: “How can [...]
Destination: The American Road Books: Roads, by Larry Mc Murtry Travels With Charley In Search of America, by John Steinbeck. “Where does the road go?” asked a young Larry McMurtry of the road running past his North Texas ranch. “What are Americans like today?” John Steinbeck asked when he set out from the East Coast [...]
