Jack Kerouac's American journey : the real-life odyssey of On the road / Paul Maher, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maher, Paul, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.

Kerouac, Jack.

Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. On the road.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Beats (Persons)--Biography.

Beats (Persons).

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 296 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Thunder's Mouth Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2007]

Summary:

From one of today's top Kerouac scholars comes a riveting, behind-the-scenes look at the true adventures that spawned one of the greatest American novels of all time, as well as the real lives of the key characters of the novel- Sal Paradise, Dean Moriarty, Carlo Marx, Old Bull Hubbard, Camille, and others. Acclaimed author Paul Maher takes readers on the road with Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady via unprecedented access to Kerouac and Cassady's correspondence, Ginsberg and Kerouac's notebooks and journals, as well as a look at the formative experience of Kerouac's philosophical and authorial aesthetic that went into this 20th-century classic. Exactly fifty years after the September 1957 publication of "On the Road" comes the most thorough, insightful, and surprising account of the book's genesis.

Contents:

Before the road

First trip on the road, June 1947-October 1947

Back home

"I am a hoodlum and a saint"

Hudson Hornet

On the road developments

Spring in New York

It is written.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-286) and index.

ISBN:

9781560259916

1560259914

OCLC:

154673978