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Passport Book Club

Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

Join us at the Passport Book Club! Reader's will travel vicariously through various books to new countries and cultures. This month we will be reading John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley.

Join us in the Passport Book Club., Tuesday, October 20 at 12 noon.

In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. To reassure himself, he set out on a voyage of rediscovery of the American identity, accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley; and riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante.
 
His course took him through almost forty states: northward from Long Island to Maine; through the Midwest to Chicago; onward by way of Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana (with which he fell in love), and Idaho to Seattle, south to San Francisco and his birthplace, Salinas; eastward through the Mojave, New Mexico, Arizona, to the vast hospitality of Texas, to New Orleans and a shocking drama of desegregation; finally, on the last leg, through Alabama, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey to New York.

Print copies will be available to borrow from the Grand St. Branch (124 Grand St., 2nd floor) until 10/3 and from the Main Branch, 2nd floor information desk after 10/5. Digital copies, both eBook & eAudio are available to borrow from Libby (eBCCLS).

If you have any questions, please contact Rosary.

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