Steinbeck's 1960 road trip across America with his poodle Charley, reflecting on landscapes, loneliness, and national character.
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Steinbeck's 1960 road trip across America with his poodle Charley, reflecting on landscapes, loneliness, and national character.
A quest across America, from the northernmost tip of Maine to California's Monterey Peninsula To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the tress, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years. With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates and the country roads, dines with truckers, encounters bears at Yellowstone and old fri...
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Brief encounters with wildlife; no graphic violence
Occasional strong language including one sexual reference
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Extended reflections on racial hostility and civil rights tensions
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Depictions of anti-Black racism including schoolyard taunting
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