Back Road Novels 1957–1960

Jack Kerouac: Road Novels 1957–1960

On the Road | The Dharma Bums | The Subterraneans | Tristessa | Lonesome Traveler | journal selections
Edited by Douglas Brinkley

“In the beginning, there was Kerouac and he was good. Shiningly, brilliantly, audaciously good—so good that one runs out of adjectives that might do him justice, so good that rereading him brings a sense of relief that the sentences hold up on their own…. [Kerouac’s work] marked the articulation of a new voice far more interesting for what the author had to say and the way in which he said it than for the technical breakthroughs that it was heralded—and scorned—for at the time.” — San Francisco Chronicle

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N° 174 Library of America Series

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