Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Productions is producing an adaptation of "On the Road" for the big screen.
Jack Kerouac was born in Massachusetts. He had written his first novel by age eleven and decided to become a writer at seventeen. He called his style 'spontaneous prose' and recorded the life of the American 'traveler' and the experience of the beatgeneration of the 1950s. He was working on his longest novel of all, a surrealistic study of the last ten years of his life, when he died in 1969, aged forty-seven.
Though Kerouac's masterpiece is not out of print and likely never will be (it still enjoys more than 60,000 sales annually), Viking is releasing a quality hardcover edition to commemorate the 40th anniversary of its original publication. Undoubtedly one of the most influential and important novels of the 20th century, this is the book that launched the Beat Generation and remains the bible of that literary movement. On the Road's publication in 1957 was a wake-up call to the American public that not all its youth were modeled after characters on Ozzie and Harriet: it portrayed Ivy League-educated white kids who smoked dope, hitchhiked, and frequented black jazz joints and Mexican whorehouses. It was the harbinger of the radical changes that would soon sweep society in the 1960s. In addition to the full text, this version includes the New York Times's original book review. A pillar of American literature.
a A dazzling piece of writing for all of its rough edges, stripped
of affectations that in the novel can sometimes verge on bathos . .
. It seems much more immediate and contemporary.a
aLuc Sante," New York Times Book Review"
A dazzling piece of writing for all of its rough edges, stripped of
affectations that in the novel can sometimes verge on bathos . . .
It seems much more immediate and contemporary.
Luc Sante, " New York Times Book Review"
? A dazzling piece of writing for all of its rough edges, stripped
of affectations that in the novel can sometimes verge on bathos . .
. It seems much more immediate and contemporary.?
?Luc Sante, " New York Times Book Review"
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