On the Road / Jack Kerouac.
By: Kerouac, Jack [author]
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General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 813.5 KER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00230854 | |||
General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 813.5 KER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00063565 |
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813.3 MEL Billy Budd, sailor : and other stories / | 813.4 The wisdom of Oz : reflections of a Jungian sandplay therapist / | 813.4 JAM A landscape-painter and other tales : 1864-1874 / | 813.5 KER On the Road / | 813.5 KER On the Road / | 813.5 TAN Abyss / | 813.52 The Wizard of Oz : the official 50th anniversary pictorial history / |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling 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.
Originally published, New York: Viking Press, 1957.
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Library Journal Review
Who hasn't wished to be ``on the road,'' free from daily responsibilities, crossing vast geographical distances, preoccupied largely with sex, music, alcohol, and conversation with friends? Kerouac carved a place in American literature by capturing that common longing with his characters Sal and Dean and their intermittent, rambling trips throughout the Western United States and Mexico. On the Road is an excellent choice for the audio format, since Kerouac's use of language seems even richer when the words are spoken aloud. Narrator David Carridine's nonchalant manner is a perfect match to the work's tone. A necessary addition to most collections. Be aware, however, that this is a reissue of a 1986 recording.-- Jeanne P. Leader, Western Nebraska Community Coll. Lib., Scottsbluff (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.Publishers Weekly Review
Fans of Kerouac get the whole beautiful, groovy deal with this new recording of the radically hip novel that many consider the heart of the Beat movement. Poetic, open and raw, Kerouac's prose lays out a cross-country adventure as experienced by Sal Paradise, an autobiographical character. A writer holed up in a room at his aunt's house, Paradise gets inspired by Dean Moriarty (a character based on Kerouac's friend Neal Cassady) to hit the road and see America. From the moment he gets on the seven train out of New York City, he takes the reader through the highs and lows of hitchhiking, bonding with fellow explorers and opting for beer before food. First published in 1957, Kerouac's perennially hot story continues to express the restless energy and desire for freedom that makes people rush out to see the world. The tale is only improved by Dillon's well-paced, articulate reading as he voices the flow of images and graveled reality of Paradise's search for the edge. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved All rights reserved.Booklist Review
With writers such as poet Allen Ginsberg, Kerouac founded the Beat movement, and this novel, about a group of the aimless and alienated wandering across the U.S., speaks for ``the Beat generation.'' [BKL S 1 57]Author notes provided by Syndetics
Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. His first novel, The Town and the City, was published in 1950. He considered all of his "true story novels," including On the Road, to be chapters of "one vast book," his autobiographical Legend of Duluoz.He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969 at the age of forty-seven.
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