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Reviews
"This is a book to be read slowly for its savor, and one
which like Thoreau, will be quoted and measured by our own experience."
Edward Weeks, Atlantic 08/62.
"[The] book is pure delight, a pungent potpourri of places
and people interspersed with bittersweet essays on everything from
the emotional difficulties of growing old to the reasons why giant
Sequoias rouse such awe." E.F. Goldman, NYT Book Review
7/29/62.
"Beyond its appeal as a first-rate travel diary, it is a
document that focuses on Steinbeck, the 60-year-old man and writer.
In this sense it is as close to autobiography as anything Steinbeck
has written, and in every sense it is a pleasure to read."
William Hogan, San Francisco Chronicle 7/29/62.
"If the reader expects to find here a travel guide to the
United States, he will be disappointed. If he hopes to find trenchant
observations about life in general and about our country, occasional
glowing descriptions of nature, some wonderful revealing scraps
of conversation, a penetrating insight into American mores, searching
thoughts on loneliness, all recorded by a master of the writing
craft, he will be delighted with 'Travels with Charley'. "
Fanny Butcher, Chicago Sunday Tribune 7/29/62.
"The prose is, as one would expect, always competent, often
self-conscious, sometimes superb. It's a slight inconsequential
book by a nice man rather than a great author." Eric Moon,
Library Journal, 6/15/62.
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