On the Road

Kerouac, Jack

ISBN 10: 0786196661 ISBN 13: 9780786196661

Verlag: INGRAM INTERNATIONAL INC, 2005

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"The most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat.'"--"The New York Times, 1957"Kerouac wrote with a sense of language as jazz, and Dillon can read like manic ragtime or weary blues"-"Lancaster Sunday News"The recording is great. Dillon's ability with voice impersonations, however, drives his performance to the level of genious."-"Audiobookcafe.com

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In its time Jack Kerouac's masterpiece was the bible of the Beat Generation, the essential prose accompaniment to Allen Ginsberg's Howl. While it stunned the public and literary establishment when it was published in 1957, it is now recognized as an American classic. With On the Road, Kerouac discovered his voice and his true subject-the search for a place as an outsider in America. A penniless writer named Sal Paradise becomes inspired to hitchhike across America, taking the listener on a freewheeling journey through the 1950s youth counterculture. Joining up with other fellow vagabonds who are in love with life and open to adventure, they explore jazz, sex, drugs, and mysticism on the fringes of society. Credited as the book that launched Jack Kerouac's career, On the Road epitomized to the world the generation that Kerouac himself named as "beat." It created a sensation by chronicling a spontaneous and wandering way of life in a style that seemed founded both on jazz and on drug-induced visions.

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• Verlag: INGRAM INTERNATIONAL INC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0786196661
• ISBN 13: 9780786196661
• Einband: CD de audio