On the Road: the Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Couverture souple

Kerouac, Jack

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0143105469 ISBN 13 : 9780143105466

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2008

Synopsis

Book by Kerouac Jack

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it

IN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of On the Road—typed as a single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper, which he later taped together to form a 120-foot scroll. A major literary event when it was published in Viking hardcover in 2007, this is the uncut version of an American classic—rougher, wilder, and more provocative than the official work that appeared, heavily edited, in 1957. This version, capturing a moment in creative history, represents the first full expression of Kerouac’s revolutionary aesthetic.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Revue de presse :

Pop writing at its best. It changed the way I saw the world, making me yearn for fresh experience (Hanif Kureishi Independent on Sunday)

On the Road sold a trillion Levis and a million espresso machines, and also sent countless kids on the road. The alienation, the restlessness, the dissatisfaction were already there waiting when Kerouac pointed out the road (William Burroughs)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0143105469
• ISBN 13: 9780143105466
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416