A US crossing

A few months before receiving the Nobel Prize, John Steinbeck travels the US with his dog Charley in his mobile home. Do not expect major tourist descriptions but rather to introspection of a middle-aged man. This story better captures the personality and the concerns of John Steinbeck. His description of racism is particularly relevant in the America of the 1960s.

But in the early twenty-first century, the pot-aux-roses is stale: John Steinbeck rather sleep in luxurious hotels, rather than spend the night in his mobile home, easing the way the scope of his narrative. The fact remains that "Travel with Charley" remains one of the classics of American literature.