tylermcgaughey 's review for:

Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck

5.0

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I loved this book. Steinbeck's prose was never as beautiful and pitch-perfect as it is here. His voice is a distinctly American one, along the lines of anyone from [a: Walt Whitman|1438|Walt Whitman|http://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1392303683p2/1438.jpg] to [a: Norman Maclean|16943|Norman Maclean|http://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1319767261p2/16943.jpg]. It's rustic and educated, vast and intimate. There's a simultaneous joy in the trying to find expressions for the magnitude and wonder of this country, a rejuvenating lust for life; and the sense of sad wistfulness upon observing the inevitable march of progress that destroys the places of our memories.