6/3/2023 0 Comments John steinbeck travelsMak uses Steinbeck’s experiences to get to the root of everything that makes America what it is: faith in both a benevolent God and individual ability an inexhaustible passion for innovation and destruction a desire to dominate nature and a relentless urge to lecture the rest of the world. Travels Without John is a compelling analysis of America in the early twenty-first century. As well as taking him to the most remote and run-down places, his journey became a painful confrontation with Steinbeck, a hugely successful but weary author, who sometimes played fast and loose with the facts. Mak set off along the same route, aiming to find out what remains of the restless but prosperous America that Steinbeck describes. In 1960 the American novelist stepped into a camper van at Sag Harbor on Long Island with his poodle Charley to begin a trek through dozens of states, from east to west and back again, ‘in search of America’.
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