On the Road

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So in America when the sun qoes
down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbe-lievable huge bulge over to tbe West Coast, and all tbat road going, all tbe people dreaming in tbe immensitq of it, and in Iowa I know bg now tbe children must be erging in the land where theg \et the children erg, and tonight the stars'U he out, and don't gou know that God is Fooh Bear? the evening star must he drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just before the Coming oi complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all rivers, cups the peaks and iolds the final shore in, and nobodg, nobodg knows what's going to bappen to angbodg besides the forlom rags oi growing old, 1 tbink oi Dean Moriartg, 1 even tbink oi Old Uean Moriartq the father we never iound, I tbink oi Dean Moriartq.
in bis September 5, 1957, New York Times review, Gilbert Millstein prophetically declared... Tovább

Fülszöveg

So in America when the sun qoes
down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbe-lievable huge bulge over to tbe West Coast, and all tbat road going, all tbe people dreaming in tbe immensitq of it, and in Iowa I know bg now tbe children must be erging in the land where theg \et the children erg, and tonight the stars'U he out, and don't gou know that God is Fooh Bear? the evening star must he drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just before the Coming oi complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all rivers, cups the peaks and iolds the final shore in, and nobodg, nobodg knows what's going to bappen to angbodg besides the forlom rags oi growing old, 1 tbink oi Dean Moriartg, 1 even tbink oi Old Uean Moriartq the father we never iound, I tbink oi Dean Moriartq.
in bis September 5, 1957, New York Times review, Gilbert Millstein prophetically declared that On the Road was "the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the génération Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat/ " Few novels have had as profound an impact as On the Road, and Kerouac's vision continues to inspire: three générations of writers, musicians, artists, and poets cite their dis-covery of On the Road as the event that "set them free/' This hardcover édition commémorâtes the fortieth anniversary of the original publication of an American classic.
On the Road chronicles Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent, from East Coast to West Coast to Mexico, with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experi-ence. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make On the Road an inspirational work of lasting importance. Vissza