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On the Road
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Blackstone Audio 2009
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Unabridged
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A penniless writer named Sal Paradise becomes inspired to hitchhike across America, taking the listener on a freewheeling journey through the 1950s youth counterculture. Joining up with other fellow vagabonds who are in love with life and open to adventure, they explore jazz, sex, drugs, and mysticism on the fringes of society.


Credited as the book that launched Jack Kerouac's career, On the Road epitomized to the world the generation that Kerouac himself named as "beat." It created a sensation by chronicling a spontaneous and wandering way of life in a style that seemed founded both on jazz and on drug-induced visions.

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Street Date:
4/16/2009
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781481508094
Lexile measure:
940
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APA Citation (style guide)

Jack Kerouac. (2009). On the Road. Unabridged Blackstone Audio.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Jack Kerouac. 2009. On the Road. Blackstone Audio.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Jack Kerouac, On the Road. Blackstone Audio, 2009.

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Jack Kerouac. On the Road. Unabridged Blackstone Audio, 2009.

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      • content: Reflecting the jazzy style of its day���Kerouac counterpoints the rhythms and structures of Sal Paradise's long, poetic sentences with Dean Moriarty's bursts of raw energy to create the music of this apotheosis of Beat. Tom Parker performs with intelligence in pacing and characterization and complete awareness of meanings���.Parker's performance is tremendous. He makes it seem so easy!
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      • content: Reflecting the jazzy style of its day, ON THE ROAD gave an honest vision to a post-war generation of bored youths longing for sex, drugs and adventure on the open road. Kerouac counterpoints the rhythms and structures of Sal Paradise's long, poetic sentences with Dean Moriarty's bursts of raw energy to create the music of this apotheosis of Beat. Tom Parker (aka Grover Gardner) performs with intelligence in pacing and characterization and complete awareness of meanings. Parker's strong but relaxed voice carries us through the lonely, love-starved American landscape in which the mystical (and now mythological) Moriarty fights a losing battle against oblivion. Tom Parker's performance is tremendous. He makes it seem so easy! P.W. Winner of AUDIOFILE Earphones Award (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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      • content: It's amazing that, with only a small bag of vocal tricks and no particular attention to subtext, Frank Muller can hold one's attention through a tome as large as this one. His voice is inherently compelling and always expressive. Here he essays the bestselling roman �� clef by the author who named and exemplified the Beat Generation. Penniless young Sal Paradise, Kerouac's alter ego, travels across America to discover himself with the help of a new buddy fresh out of reform school. Here one finds the themes that profoundly influenced the counterculture of the 60s. Muller emphasizes the romance and adventure of Paradise's escapades, though, if our hero grew spiritually and intellectually from his pilgrimages, we do not hear it. Y.R. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine
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      • content: The year 2007 marked the 50th anniversary of this modern classic, and an audio interpretation is a marvelous way to experience Kerouac's free-flowing prose. Will Patton, noted for his performance of books by James Lee Burke, is a fine match for this text. ON THE ROAD is a winding, meandering journey, and Patton's performance as narrator provides the map. His voice brings the vitality of Kerouac's sense of spontaneity into being. Patton creates distinct voices for the two main characters, speaking for Kerouac in the guise of the observant Sal Paradise and for his friend Neal Cassady in the guise of the pleasure-seeking Dean Moriarty. Patton is appropriately quiet or exuberant, optimistic or cautious, and an ideal guide into the experience that is ON THE ROAD. R.F. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
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      • content: When Jack Kerouac wrote ON THE ROAD, he typed the novel on a 120-foot scroll of paper as one long paragraph. This unedited version of the classic novel features a freer use of words, as well as the original names of Kerouac's friends for many of the characters. While this "version" of the novel may be of more interest to Kerouac devotees, this reading by John Ventimiglia (Artie Bucco in "The Sopranos") is full of subtle expression and intonation. His cadence and raw tone, combined with his range of voices, help give the story a tone of realism. While his narration may be just a bit slow, it's a fine reading of a seminal work. K.M. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
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        September 3, 2007
        In introducing the fabled first draft of Kerouac's autobiographical novel-written on a single giant roll of paper, without breaks in the text, in an amphetamine-fueled marathon-editor Howard Cunnell refers to Allen Ginsberg's claim that "the published novel is not at all like the wild book Kerouac typed in '51." Characters are identified by their real names (rather than the 1957 version's apt pseudonyms) and their love affairs are more explicit, giving the book a juicy memoir-like feel, especially where Cassady and Ginsberg are concerned. The plot, however, is identical. Neal Cassady joins Kerouac and Ginsberg's bohemian circle in New York in the late 1940's, and inspires and cons them into traveling around the country, "searching for a lost inheritance, for fathers, for family, for home, even for America." The death of Kerouac's father plays a larger role in the story than in the 1957 version; and Justin W. Brierly, a teacher who served as mentor to Cassady and has a cameo in the published book, makes a series of recurring appearances in the scroll. The lack of paragraphs or chapters emphasizes the breathless intensity of Kerouac's prose. The anniversary publicity will introduce this classic to a new generation of readers, and while the scroll probably won't displace the novel's more familiar, polished incarnation, it will be of keen interest to beat aficionados and scholars.

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