Why Kerouac Matters
Author: Leland, John
ISBN: 9780143114376
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 26 Aug 2008
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
Legions of youthful Americans have taken i>On the Road/i> as a manifesto for rebellion and an inspiration to hit the road. But there is much more to the book than that. In i>Why Kerouac Matters/i>, 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 i>On the Road/i> 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.
ISBN: 9780143114376
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 26 Aug 2008
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
Legions of youthful Americans have taken i>On the Road/i> as a manifesto for rebellion and an inspiration to hit the road. But there is much more to the book than that. In i>Why Kerouac Matters/i>, 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 i>On the Road/i> 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.
