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The Road is a 2006 post-apocalyptic novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy.The book details the grueling journey of a father and his young son over several months across a landscape blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed industrial civilization and nearly all life.
In the surviving first draft of On the Road, which Kerouac typed on a 120-foot roll of paper specially constructed for that purpose, the story's protagonist's name remains "Neal Cassady". [34] However, in Kerouac's final edition of On The Road , Cassady's character is known as "Dean Moriarty".
Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990–2003. New York: Knopf. (2004). Americans & the California Dream Series by Kevin Starr, published by Oxford University Press. Americans and the California Dream, 1850–1915. (1973) Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era. (1985) Material Dreams: Southern California through the ...
Willy Murphy [1] (October 2, 1936 [2] –March 2, 1976) [3] was an American underground cartoonist.Murphy's humor focused on hippies and the counterculture. His signature character was Arnold Peck the Human Wreck, "a mid-30s beanpole with wry observations about his own life and the community around him."
William Henry Murphy III (born August 2, 1973) is an American gospel recording artist and pastor. He started his music career in 2005, with the release of All Day on Epic Records . This album was listed on the Billboard Gospel Albums chart.
Kay Ryan (born September 21, 1945) [1] is an American poet and educator. She has published seven volumes of poetry and an anthology of selected and new poems. From 2008 to 2010 she was the sixteenth United States Poet Laureate. [2]
The collection included 10 manuscript pages of an unfinished version of On the Road, written on January 19, 1951. [15] The original scroll of On the Road was bought in 2001 by Jim Irsay for $2.43 million (equivalent to $4.18 million in 2023). It has occasionally been made available for public viewing, with the first 30 feet (9 m) unrolled.