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On the road : the original scroll / Jack Kerouac ; edited by Howard Cunnell ; introductions by Howard Cunnell, Penny Vlagopoulos, George Mouratidis, and Joshua Kupetz.
Presents the previously unpublished original scroll edition of Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road" which Kerouac wrote over a three-week period in 1951 on eight sheets of tracing paper that he taped together to form a 120-foot scroll. Includes the real names of the friends that inspired the book's storyline.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780739494264
- ISBN: 0739494260
- ISBN: 9780670063550
- ISBN: 067006355X
- ISBN: 9780143105466
- ISBN: 0143105469
- Physical Description: 408 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Viking, 2007.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-98). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Fast this time : Jack Kerouac and the writing of On the road / Howard Cunnell -- Rewriting America : Kerouac's nation of "underground monsters" / Penny Vlagopoulos -- "Into the heart of things" : Neal Cassady and the search for the authentic / George Mouratidis -- "The straight line will take you only to death" : the scroll manuscript and contemporary literary theory / Joshua Kupetz -- On the road : the original scroll. |
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| Subject: | Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. On the road. On the road (Kerouac, Jack) Beats (Persons) > Fiction. Beatniks > Romans, nouvelles, etc. self-knowledge |
| Genre: | Autobiographical fiction. |
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