Format: 4th trade paperback printing

Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and corner bumps, faint creasing at spine, faint crease at bottom right front corner.

Product dimensions: n/a

Publishing Info: Penguin, New York

Language: English

ISBN - 13: 9780143105466

 

Though Jack Kerouac began thinking about the novel that was to become On the Road as early as 1947, it was not until three weeks in April 1951, in an apartment on West Twentieth Street in Manhattan, that he wrote the first full draft that was satisfactory to him. Typed out as one long, single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper that he later taped together to form a 120 foot scroll, this document is among the most significant, celebrated, and provocative artifacts in contemporary American literary history. It represents the first full expression of Kerouac's revolutionary aesthetic, the identifiable point at which his thematic vision and narrative voice came together in a sustained burst of creative energy. It was also part of a wider vital experimentation in the American literary, musical, and visual arts in the post-World War II period.

 

Review: NY Times review

 

JackKerouac.com, a site for scholars and students of Keouac

 

Interview excerpt with Kerouac

 

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