书目

TravelswithCharleyinSearchofAmerica(PenguinTwentieth-CenturyClassics)

内容简介

TohearthespeechoftherealAmerica,tosmellthegrassandthetrees,toseethecolorsandthelight—thesewereJohnSteinbeck'sgoalsashesetout,attheageoffifty-eight,torediscoverthecountryhehadbeenwritingaboutforsomanyyears.WithCharley,hisFrenchpoodle,Steinbeckdrivestheinterstatesandthecountryroads,dineswithtruckers,encountersbearsatYellowstoneandoldfriendsinSanFrancisco.AndhereflectsontheAmericancharacter,racialhostility,onaparticularformofAmericanlonelinesshefindsalmosteverywhere,andontheunexpectedkindnessofstrangersthatisalsoaveryrealpartofournationalidentity.

作者简介

JOHNSTEINBECK(1902–1968)wasborninSalinas,California.Heworkedasalaborerandajournalist,andin1935,whenhepublishedTortillaFlat,heachievedpopularsuccessandfinancialsecurity.Steinbeckwrotemorethantwenty-fivenovelsandwontheNobelPrizein1962.RobertDeMottistheEdwinandRuthKennedyDistinguishedProfessoratOhioUniversityandtheauthorofSteinbeck’sTypewriter,anaward-winningbookofcriticalessays.GaryScharnhorstisprofessorofEnglishattheUniversityofNewMexico.HeistheeditorofbooksbyBretHarteandJohnDeForestforPenguinClassics.

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