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Paradise Road: Jack Kerouac's Lost Highway and My Search for America

Paradise Road: Jack Kerouac's Lost Highway and My Search for America


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Noted writer Jay Atkinson recreates Jack Kerouac's legendary On the Road journey in contemporary North America Jack Kerouac's iconic 1950s novel On the Road is a Beat Generation classic, chronicling the adventures and misadventures of Kerouac's travels crisscrossing North America with colorful companions Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg. Now gifted writer Jay Atkinson hits the road to retrace Kerouac's legendary journey today. How much has changed? What has remained the same? The author's experiences offer fascinating insights on American culture and society then and now and illuminate his own quest for self-understanding and discovery. * Contrasts the life and landscape of Kerouac's 1940s and 1950s America with the country today * Filled with unexpected adventures and strangers encountered on Atkinson's trips to New York, New Orleans, Chicago, Denver, Mexico City, and the California coast * Reveals Atkinson's engaging reflections on the search for personal identity and self * Other titles by Jay Atkinson: Ice Time (a Publishers Weekly Notable Book of the Year) and Legends of Winter Hill (a Boston Globe bestseller) as well as the novels City in Amber and Caveman Politics Absorbing and beautifully written, Paradise Road is essential reading for Kerouac fans as well as lovers of engaging travel memoirs and anyone interested in American life and culture.

Table of Contents:
Preface: "The big, Rushing Tremensousness". Prologue Ghosts of the Pawtucketville Night. PART ONE NEW YORK. PART TWO NEW ORLEANS. PART THREE MEXICO. PART FOUR CALIFORNIA. PART FIVE COLORADO. Acknowledgments. Index. Credits.

About the Author :
Jay Atkinson is the author of two novels, three narrative nonfiction books, and a collection of stories. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Men's Health, the Boston Globe, and elsewhere. He teaches journalism at Boston University.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780470237694
  • Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
  • Publisher Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
  • Height: 239 mm
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Jack Kerouac's Lost Highway and My Search for America
  • Width: 163 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0470237694
  • Publisher Date: 18 Mar 2010
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Weight: 526 gr


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