On the Road - The Original Scroll

Informationen zum Autor Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. Educated by Jesuit brothers in Lowell, he decided to become a writer at age seventeen and developed his own writing style, which he called 'spontaneous prose'. He used this technique to record the life of the American 'traveler' and the experiences of the Beat Generation, most memorably in On the Road and also in The Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums. His other works include Big Sur , Desolation Angels, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Gerard, Tristessa , and a book of poetry called Mexico City Blues . Jack Kerouac died in 1969. Klappentext The paperback edition of the the original, uncensored manuscript published Autumn 2007. ON THE ROAD chronicles Jack Kerouac's years travelling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make ON THE ROAD an inspirational work of lasting importance. Zusammenfassung Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero Dean Moriarty, a traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American dream.

Product details

• Authors: Howard Cunnell, Jack Kerouac, Joshua Kupetz, George Mouratidis, Penny Vlagopoulos
• Assisted by: Howar Cunnell (Editor), Howard Cunnell (Editor), Cunnell Howard (Editor), Joshua Kupetz (Introduction), Kupetz Joshua (Introduction), George Mouratidis (Introduction), Mouratidis George (Introduction), Penny Vlagopoulos (Introduction), Vlagopoulos Penny (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.06.2008
• EAN: 9780141189215
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118921-5
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics Paperbacks; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; MC FICTION ENG; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; MC FICTION ENG
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Literary, Beat style, United States of America, USA, c 1950 to c 1959, Biographical fiction