Travels with Charley

Resumen del libro

When he was almost sixty years old, worried that he might have lost touch with the sights, the sounds and the essence of America's people, Steinbeck took note of his itchy feet and prepared to travel. He was accompanied by his French poodle, Charley, diplomat and watchdog, across the states of America from Maine to California. Moving through the woods and deserts, dirt tracks and highways to large cities and glorious wildernesses, Steinbeck observed - with remarkable honesty and insight, with a humorous and sometimes sceptical eye - America, and the Americans who inhabited it.

What he saw was a lonely, generous nation too packed with individuals for single judgements; what he saw made him proud, angry, sympathetic and elated. His vision of how the world was changing still speaks to us prophetically through the decades.

Biografía del autor

Narrador y dramaturgo estadounidense (Salinas, 1902 - Nueva York,1968) famoso por sus novelas que lo sitúan en la primera línea de la corriente naturalista o del realismo social americano y muy próximo a la crónica periodística. Su estilo se caracteriza,sin embargo, por tener una gran carga de emotividad tanto por sus argumentos como en el simbolismo que trasuntan en situaciones y personajes que crea, como ocurre en sus obras mayores: De ratones y hombres (1937), Las uvas de la ira (1939) y Al este del Edén (1952). Obtuvo el premio Nobel en 1962.