## AS NEW book is clean, crisp, unclipped and unmarked. First Edition. First printing. Full number line. Dust jacket is Fine with one light scratch on front. No marks in or on book. NOT A REMAINDER. Not ex library. Not book club. 224 pages. Dust jacket protected in a crystal clear MYLAR cover. Appears as an unused, unopened book; As New First Edition.

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Title

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

Publisher

Viking

Publication Date

2007

Language

English

ISBN 10

0670063258

ISBN 13

9780670063253

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

As New

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

Seller catalogs

AAA Massachusetts & New England

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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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