Travels With Charley: In Search of America
by John Steinbeck
1962 / 283 pages – re-read
Rating 8.5

I am sooo glad I reread this book.  I wasn’t all in love with it the first time round (a 7!)  but this time I had new insight into Steinbeck and his most famous work of non-fiction.  I’d heard that the trip Steinbeck and his dog took was largely fabricated and as a result was kind of looking for clues about that – I tended to agree that the actual trip was bogus.    But on this reading I came to a surprising conclusion –  although Travels With Charley is not a travelogue as I know travelogues,   it’s a marvelous memoir of a changing America by one of its pre-eminent writers.   >>>> MORE >>>>