On the Road - Brossura

Kerouac, Jack

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0142437255 ISBN 13: 9780142437254

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2002

Riassunto

Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast.

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Recensione:

"An authentic work of art . . . the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat,' and whose principal avatar he is."
--Gilbert Millstein, The New York Times 

"On the Road has the kind of drive that blasts through to a large public. . . . What makes the novel really important, what gives it that drive is a genuine new, engaging and exciting prose style. . . . What keeps the book going is the power and beauty of the writing."
--Kenneth Rexroth, San Francisco Chronicle

"One of the finest novels of recent years. . . a highly euphoric and intensely readable story about a group of wandering young hedonists who cross the country in endless search of kicks."
--Leonard Feather, Downbeat 

L'autore:

Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), the central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. Among his many novels are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Cody.

Ann Charters is a Professor of American Literature at the University of Connecticut. She is the editor of The Portable Sixties Reader, The Portable Jack Kerouac, two volumes of Jack Kerouac's Selected Letters, and Beat Down to Your Soul. She teaches at the University of Connecticut.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0142437255
• ISBN 13: 9780142437254
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352