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Drive, He Wrote
in The New Yorker by
Louis Menand, 1 October 2007
Menand brings us an in-depth look back at On the Road, Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel based on his real-life driving trips across the country in the late 1940s. He looks at Kerouac as the original Beat movement writer against the musical backdrop of the Rat Pack. On the Road has all the elements of a great Beat novel, Menand asserts: nostalgia, sadness, sexual prowess, snapshots of America, and raw emotion. Menand is unsure if the book is great literature or a literary phenomenon, but he offers a compassionate look at Kerouac, companion Neal Cassady, and the movement they inspired.
Posted 11:08, 26 September 2007
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