Hard cover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 205 pages. This book offers a new take on Kerouac's famous novel and making clear the themes Kerouac was trying to import.

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think)
Publisher: Viking, New York
Publication Date: 2007
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0670063258
ISBN 13: 9780670063253
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

John Leland is a reporter for The New York Times and former editor in chief of Details magazine. He is the author of Hip: The History.

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