Paradise Road (PDF)
Jack Kerouac's Lost Highway and My Search for America
(Sprache: Englisch)
Noted writer Jay Atkinson recreates Jack Kerouac's legendary On the Road journeys in contemporary North AmericaJack Kerouac's iconic 1950s novel On the Road is a Beat Generation classic, chronicling the adventures and misadventures of Kerouac's travels...
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Noted writer Jay Atkinson recreates Jack Kerouac's legendary On the Road journeys in contemporary North AmericaJack Kerouac's iconic 1950s novel On the Road is a Beat Generation classic, chronicling the adventures and misadventures of Kerouac's travels crisscrossing North America with Neal Cassady, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and other colorful companions. Now gifted writer Jay Atkinson hits the road to retrace Kerouac's legendary journey today. The author's experiences offer fascinating insights on American culture and society then and now and illuminate his own quest for self-understanding and discovery.Contrasts the life and landscape of Kerouac's 1940s and 1950s America with the realities todayFilled with unexpected adventures and strangers encountered on Atkinson's trips to New York, New Orleans, Chicago, Denver, Mexico City, and the California coastReveals Atkinson's engaging reflections on the search for personal identity and selfOther titles by Jay Atkinson: Ice Time (a Publishers Weekly Notable Book of the Year) and Legends of Winter Hill (a Boston Globe bestseller) as well as the novels City in Amber and Caveman PoliticsAbsorbing and beautifully written, Paradise Road is essential reading for Kerouac fans as well as lovers of engaging travel memoirs and anyone interested in American life and culture.
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Preface: "The big, Rushing Tremensousness". Prologue Ghosts of the Pawtucketville Night. PART ONE NEW YORK. PART TWO NEW ORLEANS. PART THREE MEXICO. PART FOUR CALIFORNIA. PART FIVE COLORADO. Acknowledgments. Index. Credits.
Autoren-Porträt von Jay Atkinson
Jay Atkinson is the author of two novels, three narrative nonfiction books, and a collection of stories. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Men's Health, the Boston Globe, and elsewhere. He teaches journalism at Boston University.
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- Autor: Jay Atkinson
- 2010, 288 Seiten, Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0470594276
- ISBN-13: 9780470594278
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.02.2010
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