On the Road: the Original Scroll

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Author  Jack Kerouac Introduction by  Howard Cunnell , Penny Vlagopoulos , George Mouratidis and Joshua Kupetz
On the Road: the Original Scroll

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it
 
“The sparse and unassuming scroll is the living version [of On the Road] for our time. . . . It is a dazzling piece of writing.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
During three weeks in 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote the first draft of On the Road—typed as a long, single-spaced paragraph on eight sheets of tracing paper, which he taped together to form a scroll. Representing the identifiable point at which his vision and narrative voice first came together in a sustained burst of creative energy, the scroll is the “uncut” version of Kerouac’s masterpiece—rougher, wilder, and more sexually explicit than the edited work that appeared in…

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August 26, 2008
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