Overview

From famed Beat writer Jack Kerouac comes a collection of essays and stories compiled from journal entries he made during his travels. In his first autobiographical work, Jack Kerouac reveals exhilarating stories of the years he spent traveling, while writing his acclaimed novels. His journeys took him from California deserts crisscrossed by train tracks to the bullfights of Mexico to the Beat nightlife of New York City and across the Atlantic to Paris, Morocco, and London. He also writes about relationship, jobs, and the nature of life on the road. Here are echoes of landscapes that appear in some of his novels, including The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels. Included here are ""Piers of a Homeless Night,"" ""Mexico Fellaheen,"" ""The Railroad Earth,"" ""Slobs of the Kitchen Sea,"" ""New York Scenes,"" ""Alone on a Mountaintop,"" ""Big Trip to Europe,"" and ""The Vanishing American Hobo."" All feature his distinctive exuberant style of prose. This collection, first published together in 1960, is a unique addition to Kerouac's body of work.

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"""Full of startling and beautiful things...One sees, hears, and feels."" -- ""Sunday Times (London)"" ""Incredible, animal word-energy...Kerouac appears as a T. E. Lawrence of the five senses."" -- ""New York Times"" ""Kerouac's work is one of the most extraordinary, influential, maddening, and ultimately prodigious achievements in recent literature."" -- ""John Clellon Holmes, American author, poet, and professor"""

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Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was an American novelist and poet who influenced generations of writers. He is recognized for his spontaneous prose style and for being a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Andrew Eiden is an audiobook narrator who came from a long line of theater folk and has been acting since the age of four. He has starred in dozens of commercials as well as multiple television shows. At the age of eleven, he won first place in a local drama festival, which jumpstarted his acting career. He has performed in theaters ranging from the Glendale Center Theater to the Pasadena Playhouse.

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