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Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think)

By John Leland

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2007
ISBN
9781101202654, 2007006040
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
446 kB (456259 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-09-30 14:49:20
BIO007000Biography & AutobiographyLIT007000LIT020000Literary CriticismNonfiction

Description

Legions of youthful Americans have taken On the Road as a manifesto for rebellion and an inspiration to hit the road. But there is much more to the book than that. In Why Kerouac Matters, John Leland embarks on a wry, insightful, and playful discussion of the novel, arguing that it still matters because it lays out an alternative road map to growing up. Along the way, Leland overturns many misconceptions about On the Road as he examines the lessons that Kerouac's alter ego, Sal Paradise, absorbs and dispenses on his novelistic journey to manhood, and how those lessons-about work and money, love and sex, art and holiness - still reverberate today.

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