![]() ![]() 5) approaches, some hints about what that might have been are landing in bookstores. As the novel's 50th anniversary (on Sept. Something happened between 19 that made Kerouac a writer and On the Road the book it is today. ![]() "There are sunflowers and prairie-snowballs and long green fields, and snow mountains: as I said to somebody, 'I am Rubens and this is my Netherlands.'" "Sometimes I go out in the alfalfa field and sleep," he wrote to Neal Cassady, with whom he stayed in Monte Sereno and who would become the inspiration of his future masterpiece, On the Road, from Colorado in 1951. It took Kerouac another five years to turn what became a series of journeys across the United States into a novel, and by that time his innocence had been scorched away, replaced by a complexly mystical sense of wonder. ![]() "I've been eating apple pie & ice cream all over Iowa & Nebraska where the food is so good," the aspiring novelist wrote to her on July 24, 1947, halfway into his first cross-country trip. ![]() SIXTY YEARS ago last month, when Jack Kerouac left his mother's house in Ozone Park, Queens, America was a different place. ![]()
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