In conformist 1950s America, Jack Kerouac's On the Road was greeted with both delirium and dismay, but in Kerouac's hunt for the big experience and his longing for greatness, he has inspired each successive generation.
Jack Kerouac is now an icon, and this provocative and intimate portrait of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers, reveals a man full of contradictions, rarely at peace with himself. Barry Miles, friend and official biographer of Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, provides a meticulously researched exploration of the complex man and extraordinary writer whose creative mishmash of joyous incoherence, drug-induced ecstasy, genuine mysticism and constant craving has persuaded so many to take to the road.
- ISBN10 0753500590
- ISBN13 9780753500590
- Publish Date 17 June 1999 (first published 21 May 1998)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Virgin Books
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 416
- Language English