Fathers and Sons
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
A memoir about a man whose daughter transitions, a memoir about what it means to both of them to be a man.
Howard Cunnell Books
Howard Cunnell crafts narratives that delve into the raw, unfiltered human experience. His stylistic precision and depth of character observation allow him to explore the more shadowed corners of the psyche. Cunnell frequently emphasizes themes of survival, identity, and the search for meaning in often harsh landscapes. His prose is provocative, compelling readers to introspection.
`Cunnell maps new noir territory in an incandescent underwater world' Guardian
On the road
- 310 pages
- 11 hours of reading
On September 5, 1957, Jack Kerouac?s novel On The Road was published. Since then, few books have had as profound an impact on American culture. Pulsating with the rhythms of late-1940s/1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road, Kerouac?s classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be?Beat? and has inspired generations of writers, musicians, artists, poets and seekers who cite their discovery of the book as the event that?set them free.? Based on Kerouac?s adventures with Neal Cassady, On The Road tells the story of two friends whose four cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Expressing a mixture of sad-eyed naïveté and wild abandon, and imbued with Kerouac?s love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On The Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope. It changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up.
An urgent and blistering story about class, protest and art, from the acclaimed author of Fathers and Sons.
On the Road. Il «Rotolo» del 1951
- 504 pages
- 18 hours of reading
«Sono andato veloce perché la strada è veloce.» Tra il 2 e il 22 aprile 1951 – scrive Kerouac a Neal Cassady – «ho scritto un romanzo su una striscia di carta lunga 120 piedi infilata nella macchina da scrivere e senza paragrafi, fatta srotolare sul pavimento e sembra proprio una strada». Con questo “rotolo” ha inizio la vicenda del mitico romanzo che narra i viaggi di Kerouac tra Stati Uniti e Messico negli anni 1947-50 e che vedrà la luce, in una versione ampiamente rimaneggiata, solo nel 1957. Più lungo di quello definitivo, il testo originario di On the road contiene numerose scene poi tagliate e risulta più cupo, spigoloso e disinibito. Intima, sfrenata e “vera”, la scrittura di Kerouac trascina il lettore alla bruciante scoperta di una strada che è la vita stessa.
