Main Title: Travels with Charley
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Author: Steinbeck, John
First Published: 1962
Publisher Used for Citing: Penguin Books
Type: Non-Fiction
Period: 20th Century

This vacant eye, listless hand, this damask cheek dusted like a doughnut with plastic powder, had to have a memory or a dream.


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Author-Steinbeck John Title-Travels with Charley Year-1962 Period-20th Century Type-Non-Fiction Publisher-Penguin Books

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They shot at him like a varmint, an’ he shot back, an’ then they run him like a coyote, an’ him a-snappin’ an’ a-snarlin’, mean as a lobo.

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