Now available for the first time in paperback, here is Tim Hunt's incisive look into Jack Kerouac's creative process and achievement. Debunking much of the mythology about Kerouac, Hunt shows the author of On the Road and Visions of Cody working out the literary strategies that link him to Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and other canonical American novelists. This is an essential book for anyone interested in Beat culture and Kerouac's conscious literary artistry.
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"One leaves Tim Hunt's Kerouac's Crooked Road with the feeling that no one has ever really read such a familiar novel as On the Road before . . . . [This] is an enormously stimulating and rewarding study of a writer who may have been too quickly undervalued." -- Warren French, Studies in American Fiction
"[Hunt] demonstrates that Kerouac's fiction, unlike the commonly accepted notion of it as the work of a talented but undisciplined writer, is the result of labor and thought . . . [and] gives as lucid an explanation as I have seen of Kerouac's 'spontaneous prose' and 'sketching,' relating both of these to jazz and painting." -- The Review of Contemporary Fiction
"[Hunt] demonstrates that Kerouac's fiction, unlike the commonly accepted notion of it as the work of a talented but undisciplined writer, is the result of labor and thought . . . [and] gives as lucid an explanation as I have seen of Kerouac's 'spontaneous prose' and 'sketching,' relating both of these to jazz and painting." -- The Review of Contemporary Fiction
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"This is decidely the best of the American books on Kerouac--smart, insightful, situating Kerouac firmly in the broader American literary tradition while remaining wonderfully alert to the themes and formal strategies that mark Kerouac's own highly innovative contribution to that tradition."--Ann Douglas, author of Terrible Honesty
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THE EXTRACTED BEST OF "ON THE ROAD",
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This is a strange book. It reads more like a Jungian interpretation. I loved it, the way they basically did a compressed verision of On the Road linked together by a Moses-like point of view (no weider than the great book itself though). Very dreamy.
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In spite of its reputation, On the Road is best understood as a skillfully managed traditional novel. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shrouded traveler, sideburned hero, spontaneous prose, jewel center, wild form, road material, crooked road Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Doctor Sax, San Francisco, Joan Rawshanks, Dean Moriarity, Huck Finn, Ghost of the Susquehanna, The Great Gatsby, Cody Pomeray, World War, Mississippi Gene, Mexico City, Three Stooges, Tom Sawyer, Imitation of the Tape, Ray Smith, North Carolina, Ace Books, Central City, Gray Myth of the West, Long Island, New Orleans, Bull Lee, Gene Autry, Jack Duluoz New!
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In spite of its reputation, On the Road is best understood as a skillfully managed traditional novel. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shrouded traveler, sideburned hero, spontaneous prose, jewel center, wild form, road material, crooked road Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Doctor Sax, San Francisco, Joan Rawshanks, Dean Moriarity, Huck Finn, Ghost of the Susquehanna, The Great Gatsby, Cody Pomeray, World War, Mississippi Gene, Mexico City, Three Stooges, Tom Sawyer, Imitation of the Tape, Ray Smith, North Carolina, Ace Books, Central City, Gray Myth of the West, Long Island, New Orleans, Bull Lee, Gene Autry, Jack Duluoz New!
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- On the Road by Jack Kerouac on 108 pages
- Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac on 72 pages
- The Town and the City by Jack Kerouac on 24 pages
- Dr. Sax by Jack Kerouac on 13 pages
- Beat Generation by Jack Kerouac on 8 pages
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- The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Michael Davidson in Back Matter
- Bukowski and the Beats: A Commentary on the Beat Generation by Jean-Francois Duval in Back Matter
- Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage by Claude J. Summers on page 391
- Subterranean Kerouac: The Hidden Life of Jack Kerouac by Ellis Amburn in Back Matter
- Jack Kerouac: A Biography by Tom Clark in Back Matter
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