On the Road : The Original Scroll : Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition - Jack Kerouac

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On the Road : The Original Scroll

Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

By: Jack Kerouac, Penny Vlagopoulos (Introduction by), George Mouratidis (Introduction by), Howell Cunnell (Editor), Joshua Kupetz (Introduction by)

26 August 2008

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The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it.

IN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of On the Road—typed as a single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper, which he later taped together to form a 120-foot scroll. A major literary event when it was published in Viking hardcover in 2007, this is the uncut version of an American classic—rougher, wilder, and more provocative than the official work that appeared, heavily edited, in 1957. This version, capturing a moment in creative history, represents the first full expression of Kerouac’s revolutionary aesthetic.
Industry Reviews
? 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"
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"

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