On the Road: The Original Scroll

Authors:Jack Kerouac, Howard Cunnell
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: scroll, original, road
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2007-08-16
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 067006355X
ISBN-13: 9780670063550

Book Description:

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it

IN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of On the Road—typed as a single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper, which he later taped together to form a 120-foot scroll. A major literary event when it was published in Viking hardcover in 2007, this is the uncut version of an American classic—rougher, wilder, and more provocative than the official work that appeared, heavily edited, in 1957. This version, capturing a moment in creative history, represents the first full expression of Kerouac’s revolutionary aesthetic.


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