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NY: Penguin books. Poor PB. (1977). includes a newspaper clipping about Kerous not dated. take the Boulderado Hotel where Kerouac's illegitimate daughter Jan . ootbag they'd accused me of holdingin railroad 191 here I am in Mexico City, rainy Aturday night. mysteries, old dream sidestreets with no names reeling in the little steet where I'd walked through crowds of glo omy Hobo Indians wrapped intragic shawl enough to make you cry and you thou ht you saw knives flashingbeneath the folds lugubrious dreams as tragica st the one of Old Raailroad Night where my father sits big of thighs in smoking car of night, outside's a bakeman with ared light and white light lumbrinin the sadvast mist tracks of life but now I'm up on that way to the ancient dripping stone toilet- Tristessa is high beautiful as ever, going home gayly to go to bed and enjoy her morphine. Night before I'm in a quiet hassel in the rain saw with her darkly at Midnight counters eating bread and soup and drinking Delaware Punch. and I'd come out of that interview with a vision of Tristessa in my bed in my arms the strangeness of he lovge check Azieca, Indian girl with mysterious lidded Billy Holliday eyes and spoke with great melancholic voice like Louise Ranier sadfaced Viennese actresses thta made all Ukraine cry in 1910. Gorgeous aples of pear shape here skin to her cheekbones and peachy coffee complexion andn eyes ofastonishing mystery with nothing but earth depth expresionless half-didain and half moutnful lament and Bull at the Pd- I'm in Mexico City wildhaired and mad riding in a cab down past the cine Mexico in rainy traffic jams. "I am seek", she's always saying" to me. .
Synopsis
Perhaps the most famous and influential of the Beat novels, Jack Kerouac's On the Road represents much of what made the Beat and Counterculture movements so unique and important. The plot concerning the road trips and adventures experienced by Kerouac and his friends is well-known, as are the rumors and tall tales of the books' production. Kerouac often claimed that the wrote On the Road in a mere three weeks on a single 120-foot scroll of paper. Although that scroll does indeed exist and is featured in museums, Kerouac kept detailed journals of his travels that would later become passages and chapters in the finished product. The book was first published by Viking in 1957. Viking Press would go on to publish an edited version of On the Road in 2007 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first printing. They substituted the fictional names for the real Beat protagonists, and they even included some of the more sexually explicit passages that were edited out of the 1957 edition. Due to the cultural significance of the book, true first editions/first printings of On the Road are quite valuable. But be warned: it is easy to mistake reprints or book club editions for the real thing, so always check with an expert before making a significant purchase.
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On Sep 3 2011, West of Eden Books said:
A few years ago, 50 years after its initial publication, and 35 years since I had read it for the first time myself, I loaned my battered paperback copy of On The Road to a young friend of mine who had asked me "What should I read next?". Her reaction was, as I would have hoped, overwhelmingly positive. "It made me want to go hitchhiking" she told me. She didn't go, of course, that's considered too dangerous these days, but she caught the spirit of Kerouac from those yellowed old pages and that made me happy. It made me remember myself from the days before I was twenty. When the world was wide-open in front of me with all my limitless imagination and inexhaustible energy to carry me forward. Those two-and-a-half-hundred pages created in a Benzedrine-fueled typing frenzy spoke to both of us across generations as great writing is meant to do. Jack's tales of Casady, Ginsberg, Burroughs, and the rest would continue in his books that followed but the spirit and zest of On The Road stand alone. Bob Dylan said of On The Road, "It changed my life like it changed everyone else's". Myself and my young friend were lucky enough to experience it that same way.
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- Crabtree's Collection Old Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- On the Road
- Author
- Kerouac, Jack
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor PB
- Publisher
- Penguin books
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- (1977)
- Keywords
- includes a newspaper clipping about Kerous not dated. take the, Boulderado Hotel where Kerouac's illegitimate daughter Jan
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography;
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