Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think)
Viking Adult, August 2007. Hardcover. Used - Acceptable. Item #209433
ISBN: 0670063258
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.
Book in structually good shape but there is underling on about a third of the text.
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Price: $4.50
