A review by shepcatzero
Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck

5.0

I've read quite a bit of Steinbeck, and I can't believe it took me this long to get around to Travels with Charley. I loved this book so much. Steinbeck's style here is at once relaxed and grandiose, freed from all the usual formal structures of his writing but full of beautifully crafted sentences and artful turns of phrase from that place of poetry in his soul. It is a warm, funny, thoughtful, completely disarming book that makes me pine for a Rocinante of my own. I already can't wait to read it again someday.