praise for the author The Guardian (London)
A remarkable ear for the cadences of a phrase or sentence, a sense of how to register in words the sheer, sweet flow of things.”
New York Times
Kerouac’s largely autobiographical novel tracing his travels through France at age forty-three takes its name from a Japanese word for ‘sudden illumination.’ First published two years before the Beat writer’s death and newly reprinted, ‘this book’ll say,’ he tells his reader early on, ‘in effect, have pity on us all.’”
praise for the author New York Times
Kerouac is an uncanny archetype for a whole generation of Americans who trekked through the ’60s and ’70s.”
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Praise for Satori in Paris and Jack Kerouac:
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“A remarkable ear for the cadences of a phrase or sentence, a sense of how to register in words the sheer, sweet flow of things.”—The Guardian
“An outsider in America, Jack Kerouac was a true original.”—Ann Charters
“The wonder of Kerouac’s muscular, free-form, imagistic language still astonishes. He remains an essential American mythologizer—one caught up in that backstreet world of bohemian life, before it was transformed by the harsh social Darwinism of capitalism . . . A hundred years after his birth, we still want to live that Kerouacian vision of life as one long cool stretch of highway.”—New Statesman
