New York Times Book Review
"Kerouac's nerve-ends vs. the universe, [with] flashes of poetry, truth, daffiness."
The New Yorker
"...jazzy impressionistic prose."
John Clellon Holmes
Kerouac’s work is one of the most extraordinary, influential, maddening, and ultimately prodigious achievements in recent literature.”
Sunday Times (London)
Full of startling and beautiful things…One sees, hears, and feels.”
New York Times
Incredible, animal word-energy…Kerouac appears as a T. E. Lawrence of the five senses.”
From the Publisher
Praise for Lonesome Traveler
“An incredible, animal word-energy . . . For those millions of Americans sitting in their nervous Eames chairs wasting away with eternal boredom, Kerouac appears as a T.E. Lawrence of the five senses.”—New York Times
“Full of startling and beautiful things . . . One sees, hears and feels.”—Sunday Times
“Kerouac’s work is one of the most extraordinary, influential, maddening, and ultimately prodigious achievements in recent literature.”—John Clellon Holmes