Visions of Paradise: The Illustrated Adventures of Jack Kerouac on the Road

ISBN-10: 1560254300
ISBN-13: 9781560254300
Series: Visions of Paradise
Language: English
Published: 2002
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
Author: Rick Bleier

Description

What author Rick Bleier hoped to accomplish with his drawings of Jack Kerouac on the road was to propel the reader through the wildly exultant chronology of Kerouac's life adventures. With text to accompany comic book-like images, author and artist Rick Bleier illustrates the adventures of lack Kerouac from his childhood in Lowell to the birth of the Beat generation. Bleier presents us with Kerouac's ideas about art and the world, his many road adventures, the publication of the acclaimed On the Road, fame, and ultimate decline. What results is a kind of bebop confluence -- a book whose own vitality parallels that of Kerouac's headlong rush into adventure and literature.