"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