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Jack Kerouac's long and winding Road trip: the revolutionary 1957 travel memoir On the Road ignited a generation and flung open the floodgates of hip "otherness." At its core is a heartbreaking and oblique queer romance.
The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
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April 22, 2008|
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Jack Kerouac's famed coming-of-age travel novel--and subtextual gay love story--On the Road turned 50 last year. The pioneering book traces the journeys the author took across America by bus and car both alone and with his best friend and inspiration, the bisexual hustler, con artist, and raconteur Heal Cassady.
Even at the time of the book's publication in 1957, the novel's stream-of-consciousness, balls-to-the-wall style and its focus on the socially marginalized (hobos, intellectuals, gay hustlers) gained the matinee idol-handsome Kerouac (1922-1969) a dedicated ...
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50 for fun.(Features)
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The Normans came quite late, actually
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The great pretender; Search for 'lost royals' turns up Albert, 70, a distant cousin of Prince Charles.
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Edinburgh: the visually spectacular Scottish capital witnessed fierce dynastic struggle before it welcomed the spirit of the Enlightenment, as Patricia Cleveland-Peck discovers.(TODAY'S HISTORY)
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