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Paradise Road: Jack Kerouac′s Lost Highway and My Search for America de Jay Atkinson

Paradise Road: Jack Kerouac′s Lost Highway and My Search for America

Autor Jay Atkinson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 mar 2010
Noted writer Jay Atkinson recreates Jack Kerouac′s legendary On the Road journeys in contemporary North America Jack Kerouac′s iconic 1950s novel On the Road is a Beat Generation classic, chronicling the adventures and misadventures of Kerouac′s travels crisscrossing North America with   Neal Cassady, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and other colorful companions. Now gifted writer Jay Atkinson hits the road to retrace Kerouac′s legendary journey today. The author′s experiences offer fascinating insights on American culture and society then and now and illuminate his own quest for self–understanding and discovery. Contrasts the life and landscape of Kerouac′s 1940s and 1950s America with the realities today Filled with unexpected adventures and strangers encountered on Atkinson′s trips to New York, New Orleans, Chicago, Denver, Mexico City, and the California coast Reveals Atkinson′s engaging reflections on the search for personal identity and self Other titles by Jay Atkinson: Ice Time (a Publishers Weekly Notable Book of the Year) and Legends of Winter Hill (a Boston Globe bestseller) as well as the novels City in Amber and Caveman Politics Absorbing and beautifully written, Paradise Road is essential reading for Kerouac fans as well as lovers of engaging travel memoirs and anyone interested in American life and culture.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780470237694
ISBN-10: 0470237694
Pagini: 251
Dimensiuni: 161 x 244 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Wiley (TP)
Colecția John Wiley &Sons
Locul publicării:Hoboken, United States

Public țintă

Readers of On the Road ; Kerouac fans; lovers of travel memoirs

Descriere

praise for jay atkinson "The bard of New England toughness." —Men′s Health For Legends of Winter Hill: Cops, Con Men, and Joe McCain, the Last Real Detective: "A page–turner. Legends of Winter Hill, which had me cringing one minute and laughing the next, broadened my street education . . . I guarantee it will do the same for you." —Boston Sunday Globe "Collaring the reader from the start, Legends of Winter Hill pushes hard and fast, propelling larger–than–life characters across the page, neverloosening its grip." —Boston Herald For Ice Time: A Tale of Fathers, Sons, and Hometown Heroes: "A memorable journey, part reportage, part memoir, all heart." —Bill Reynolds, The Providence Journal "[Atkinson] seamlessly weaves his past with current events, detailing the team′s fortunes while lovingly recalling his own at that time of life." —The Virginian–Pilot "A bona fide masterstroke." —Publishers Weekly "Far more than just a chronicle of a high school hockey season, Jay Atkinson′s book is an evocative, bittersweet, poetic journey of a grown man trying, as we all try, not to recapture youth but to remember the splendor of it." —H. G. Bissinger, author of the bestselling Friday Night Lights For Caveman Politics: "Atkinson keeps his plot moving at a good pace, offering enough twists to keep the reader′s attention, but it is the humor and insight of his characters that make the novel work." —The New York Times Book Review

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praise for jay atkinson

"The bard of New England toughness."
--Men's Health

For Legends of Winter Hill: Cops, Con Men, and Joe McCain, the Last Real Detective:

"A page-turner. Legends of Winter Hill, which had me cringing one minute and laughing the next, broadened my street education . . . I guarantee it will do the same for you."
--Boston Sunday Globe

"Collaring the reader from the start, Legends of Winter Hill pushes hard and fast, propelling larger-than-life characters across the page, neverloosening its grip."
--Boston Herald

For Ice Time: A Tale of Fathers, Sons, and Hometown Heroes:

"A memorable journey, part reportage, part memoir, all heart."
--Bill Reynolds, The Providence Journal

"[Atkinson] seamlessly weaves his past with current events, detailing the team's fortunes while lovingly recalling his own at that time of life."
--The Virginian-Pilot

"A bona fide masterstroke."
--Publishers Weekly

"Far more than just a chronicle of a high school hockey season, Jay Atkinson's book is an evocative, bittersweet, poetic journey of a grown man trying, as we all try, not to recapture youth but to remember the splendor of it."
--H. G. Bissinger, author of the bestselling Friday Night Lights

For Caveman Politics:

"Atkinson keeps his plot moving at a good pace, offering enough twists to keep the reader's attention, but it is the humor and insight of his characters that make the novel work."
--The New York Times Book Review

Cuprins

Preface: "The big, Rushing Tremensousness". Prologue Ghosts of the Pawtucketville Night. PART ONE NEW YORK. PART TWO NEW ORLEANS. PART THREE MEXICO. PART FOUR CALIFORNIA. PART FIVE COLORADO. Acknowledgments. Index. Credits.

Notă biografică

Jay Atkinson is the author of two novels, three narrative nonfiction books, and a collection of stories. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Men′s Health, the Boston Globe, and elsewhere. He teaches journalism at Boston University.