On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) -- Jack Kerouac, Paperback

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.

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Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 08/26/2008
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.65w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780143105466
Age Range: 18-UP

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 10/12/2008 pg. 32

About the Author
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), the central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. Among his many novels are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Cody.