Which largely autobiographical 1957 novel is narrated by the character Sal Paradise?
"narrator Sal Paradise. The idea for ""On the Road"", Kerouac's second novel, was formed during the late 1940s in a series of notebooks, and then typed out on a continuous reel of paper during three weeks in April 1951. It was first published by Viking Press in 1957. When the book was originally released, ""The New York Times"" hailed it as ""the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat,' and whose principal avatar he is."" In 1998, the Modern Library ranked ""On the Road"" 55th"
"was changed by the publication of Jack Kerouac's ""On the Road"" in 1957, as it sketched out the future for the road movie and provided its ""master narrative"" of exploration, questing, and journeying. The book includes many descriptions of driving in cars. It also depicted the character Sal Paradise, a middle class college student who goes on the road to seek material for his writing career, a bounded journey with a clear start and finish which differs from the open ended wandering of previous films, with characters making chance encounters with other drivers who influence where one travels or ends"
"maverick eager to explore all kicks and an inspiration and catalyst for Sal's travels. The novel contains five parts, three of them describing road trips with Moriarty. The narrative takes place in the years 1947 to 1950, is full of Americana, and marks a specific era in jazz history, ""somewhere between its Charlie Parker ""Ornithology"" period and another period that began with Miles Davis."" The novel is largely autobiographical, Sal being the alter ego of the author and Dean standing for Neal Cassady. The first section describes Sal's first trip to San Francisco. Disheartened after a divorce, his life changes"
"Paradise (novel) Paradise is a 1997 novel by Toni Morrison, and her first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. According to the author, it completes a ""trilogy"" that begins with ""Beloved"" (1987) and includes ""Jazz"" (1992). The book was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection for January 1998. Morrison wanted to call the novel War but was overridden by her editor. The book is structured into nine sections. The first is named ""Ruby"" after the town on which the book centers. The rest are named for women implicated variously in the life of the town"
"respectively, but this project also failed to work. In 2001, Coppola hired novelist Russell Banks to write the script and planned to make the film with Joel Schumacher directing and starring Billy Crudup as Sal Paradise and Colin Farrell as Dean Moriarty, but this incarnation of the project was shelved as well. Gus Van Sant also expressed interest in making the film. Coppola saw ""The Motorcycle Diaries"" and hired Brazilian director Walter Salles to direct the film. Salles was drawn to the novel because, according to him, it is about people ""trying to break into a society that’s impermeable"" and"
"bought in 2001 by Jim Irsay for $2.43 million (equivalent to $ million in ). It has occasionally been made available for public viewing, with the first 30 feet (9 m) unrolled. Between 2004 and 2012, the scroll was displayed in several museums and libraries in the United States, Ireland, and the UK. It was exhibited in Paris in the summer of 2012 to celebrate the movie based on the book. The two main characters of the book are the narrator, Sal Paradise, and his friend Dean Moriarty, much admired for his carefree attitude and sense of adventure, a free-spirited"
"""The Guardian"". Campbell is the author of two novels - ""The Paradise Trail"" (2008) and ""If It Bleeds"" (2009). ""The Paradise Trail"" is set largely in India in 1971, it is partly a murder mystery and partly an affectionate depiction of life on the ""hippie trail"": the cheap hotels and eating places, the music, the drug-fuelled conversations. Campbell has also written several nonfiction books, including a history of British crime from the 1930s to the 1990s (""The Underworld"", 1994 - based on the BBC television series) and ""That Was Business, This Is Personal"" (1990 - a series of interviews with"
"a successful film and a television series respectively. He published almost a hundred books on different subjects, including ten volumes of autobiography: ""My Life and Times"" (1963–71). He wrote history (on the Battle of Marathon and the Battle of Salamis), biography (""Mr Roosevelt"", a 1943 biography of FDR), literary criticism, satires, apologia (""Sublime Tobacco"" 1957), children's stories, poetry and so on. Of his fiction, ""The Four Winds of Love"" is sometimes considered his ""magnum opus"". He was admired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose first book, ""This Side of Paradise"", was written under the literary influence of Compton. ""Sinister Street"", his"
"Paradiso (novel) Paradiso is a novel by Cuban writer José Lezama Lima, the only one completed and published during his lifetime. Written in an elaborately baroque style, the narrative follows the childhood and youth of José Cemí, and depicts many scenes which resonate with Lezama's own life as a young poet in Havana. Many of the characters reappear in Lezama's posthumous novel ""Oppiano Licario"", which was published in Mexico in 1977. The novel relates Cemí's struggles with a mysterious childhood illness, describes the death of his father, and explores his homosexuality and literary sensibilities. He lives in the world of"
"Paradise of the Blind Paradise of the Blind (Những thiên đường mù) is a novel by female writer Dương Thu Hương, published in 1988. It was the first Vietnamese novel published in English in the United States. It is now banned in Vietnam because of the political views it expounds. Hang, the protagonist, journeys on a train to visit her Uncle Chinh. While on the train she remembers her life and various stories about her family through flashbacks. Hang is the narrator of the story. Throughout her journey to Moscow she recounts significant events in her childhood. As she is"
"published in Cali on March 4, 1977. That same afternoon, its author committed suicide. Caicedo described his book as a result of an ""ephemeral curiosity"", but there is a small but dedicated core of readers who believe it to be one of the greatest novels among Colombian literature of the second half of the 20th century. The novel is set in the city of Cali, known also as the ""World Capital of Salsa"". It is also the native city of Caicedo, who reflects its barrios and streets and its people of the 1970s. The novel has been seen as an"
"Paradise News Paradise News (1991) is a novel by British author David Lodge. The novel explores the notion of paradise on earth and in heaven. The story begins with Bernard, a laicised Catholic priest, escorting his unwilling father Jack to Hawaii at the request of his aunt Ursula, who is dying of cancer. On the day after arrival, Jack is hit by a car and sent to hospital. Bernard spends much time travelling between Jack's bedside and Ursula's nursing home, and through this, gets the opportunity to discover their past. Ursula, always portrayed as the selfish black sheep, had been"
"September 2002. The Captain's Paradise The Captain's Paradise is a 1953 British comedy film produced and directed by Anthony Kimmins, and starring Alec Guinness, Yvonne De Carlo, and Celia Johnson. Guinness plays the captain of a passenger ship that travels regularly between Gibraltar and Spanish Morocco. De Carlo plays his Moroccan wife and Johnson plays his British wife. The film begins at just before the end of the story, which is then told in a series of flashbacks. In 1958, the story was made into a Broadway musical comedy, retitled ""Oh, Captain!"". In early 1950s North Africa, a man (Alec"
"The Captain's Paradise The Captain's Paradise is a 1953 British comedy film produced and directed by Anthony Kimmins, and starring Alec Guinness, Yvonne De Carlo, and Celia Johnson. Guinness plays the captain of a passenger ship that travels regularly between Gibraltar and Spanish Morocco. De Carlo plays his Moroccan wife and Johnson plays his British wife. The film begins at just before the end of the story, which is then told in a series of flashbacks. In 1958, the story was made into a Broadway musical comedy, retitled ""Oh, Captain!"". In early 1950s North Africa, a man (Alec Guinness) is"
"I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (novel) I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1964) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Joanne Greenberg, written under the pen name of Hannah Green. It served as the basis for a film in 1977 and a play in 2004. The character of Dr. Fried is based closely on Greenberg's real doctor Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, and the hospital on Chestnut Lodge in Rockville, Maryland. While at Chestnut Lodge, Greenberg described a fantasy world called Yr to her doctors, quoting poetry in the Yri language. However, some of Greenberg's doctors felt that this was not a"
"historical fiction. In November 1996, Vidal married businessman Michael J. Russell. She currently lives in Maryland with her family and has completed a historical novel called ""The Paradise Tree"" about her Irish ancestors which was published in October 2014 by Mayapple Books. ""The Paradise Tree"" has been listed by ""Kirkus Reviews"" as one of the top 20 indie books of 2014, and among the top 100 best books of the year, according to the December 2014 issue. Elena Maria Vidal Elena Maria Vidal (born 1962) is a historical novelist and noted blogger living in Easton, Maryland. She was born in"
"an adaptation of André Gide's book ""The Immoralist"", led to calls from Hollywood. In 1953, director Elia Kazan was looking for a substantive actor to play the emotionally complex role of 'Cal Trask', for screenwriter Paul Osborn's adaptation of John Steinbeck's 1952 novel ""East of Eden"". The lengthy novel deals with the story of the Trask and Hamilton families over the course of three generations, focusing especially on the lives of the latter two generations in Salinas Valley, California, from the mid-19th century through the 1910s. In contrast to the book, the film script focused on the last portion of"
"It was followed in 1951 by Cornell University professor Arthur Mizener's ""The Far Side of Paradise,"" a biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald that rekindled interest in the couple among scholars. Mizener's biography was serialized in ""The Atlantic Monthly,"" and a story about the book appeared in ""Life"" magazine, then one of America's most widely read and discussed periodicals. Scott was viewed as a fascinating failure; Zelda's mental health was largely blamed for his lost potential. A play based on ""The Disenchanted"" opened on Broadway in 1958. Also that year, Scott's Hollywood mistress Sheilah Graham published a memoir, ""Beloved Infidel"", about"
"la Tierra Santa"" (1914) and ""Vistas de Europa"" (1919). He was also the author of several essays, autobiographies and literary criticisms on Art Sensation (1893) Foreign Literature (1895), Modernism (1905), Exotic literatures (1920), Sappho, and other seductive courtesans (1921), The mystery of life and death of Mata Hari (1923), The hundred masterpieces of world literature (1924) and New French literature (1927). As for his narrative, immoral novels include Of love, of pain and vice (1898), Bohemia sentimental (1899), Wonderland (1899, 1922) and The Gospel of Love (1922). Erotic themes predominates within the aesthetic decadence of his writings. Guatemala is probably"
"Gastón Suárez Gastón Suárez (born January 27, 1929 – November 6, 1984) was a Bolivian novelist and dramatist. Suárez was born in the town of Tupiza in the southern part of Potosí, Bolivia in 1929. A self-taught writer, Suárez abandoned elementary school at third grade, following a traumatizing event in which his teacher suffered an epilepsy attack while reading for him. Ironically, his mother, who was also a rural teacher, accepted to home-school him. When he was ten, after reading ""Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen"" by Jules Verne and ""Jerry of the Islands"" by Jack London he promised and"
"Five-Forty-Eight"", ""The Country Husband"", and ""The Swimmer""), he also wrote four novels, comprising ""The Wapshot Chronicle"" (National Book Award, 1958), ""The Wapshot Scandal"" (William Dean Howells Medal, 1965), ""Bullet Park"" (1969), ""Falconer"" (1977) and a novella ""Oh What a Paradise It Seems"" (1982). His main themes include the duality of human nature: sometimes dramatized as the disparity between a character's decorous social persona and inner corruption, and sometimes as a conflict between two characters (often brothers) who embody the salient aspects of both – light and dark, flesh and spirit. Many of his works also express a nostalgia for a"
"as a specialized form of travel literature. She wrote eleven books during her life, the most popular of which was her first ""One Day on Beetle Rock"" (1944). Several of her other popular titles are ""The Twilight Seas"" (1975), ""Icebound Summer"" (1953), ""One Day at Teton Marsh"" (1965), ""Home to the Wilderness"" (1973), and ""Wild Heritage"" (1965). Other books by this author include ""Wild Voice of the North: Chronicle of an Eskimo Dog"" (1959), ""Moonlight at Midday"" (1958), ""The Glass Dove: A Novel of the Underground Railroad"" (1962), ""A Husky in the House"" (1960) and ""Blue Whale"" (1975). Sally Carrighar"
"redundant and the chronology of events puzzling, but this is an absorbing account of a romance that was anything but storybook."" Murder in Paradise Published in November 2003 by St. Martin's Press, this studies the circumstances in which American Lois McMillan drowned while visiting the British Virgin Islands. The Daughters of Juárez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border Released in March 2007, the Spanish edition of ""Daughters of Juarez"", written with Univision TV host Teresa Rodriguez, was published by Simon & Schuster and was a bestseller. The book chronicles the unsolved murders of hundreds of young"
"South Sea Adventure South Sea Adventure is a 1952 children's book by the Canadian-born American author Willard Price featuring his ""Adventure"" series characters, Hal and Roger Hunt. The novel depicts an expedition to the South Pacific to capture animals for a zoo. The novel introduces the boys' arch-enemy Kaggs, who appears in other books in the ""Adventure"" series. Much of the plot involves the Hunt brothers stranded on an island in the manner of Robinson Crusoe, but Price denies his heroes the luxuries which Daniel Defoe's protagonist so easily enjoys: Hal and Roger's island is a pitiless environment scarce in"
"department for essentially non-medical reasons, which could have covered any number of mental illnesses from anxiety to depression. A 1981 article in the ""New York Times"" two psychiatrists who examined the description of Blau in the book claim that she was not schizophrenic, but rather suffered from extreme depression and somatization disorder. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (novel) I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1964) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Joanne Greenberg, written under the pen name of Hannah Green. It served as the basis for a film in 1977 and a play in 2004. The character"
"Rushing to Paradise Rushing to Paradise is a novel by British author J. G. Ballard, first published in 1994. The novel relates the fictional tale of a small and eccentric group of environmentalists attempting to save the albatross on the Pacific island of St.Esprit from nuclear tests by the French government. Dr. Barbara is a disgraced doctor who forms a small band of environmentalists to attempt to save the albatross from nuclear testing by the French government on the remote Pacific island of St.Esprit. Neil, a naïve 16-year-old, joins the group and the story is told from his perspective. During"
"(1943) published as well as two detective stories ""The Green Token"" (1943) and ""Treasure of the Hills"" (1944). Shaw decided after several rejections that no one outside Australia had an interest in stories about the Outback. He wrote a novel ""Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison"", published in 1952, about a U.S. Marine and a nun on a Japanese-held Pacific island. It was adapted for the screen as a 1957 film by John Huston and John Lee Mahin. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium in 1957. Shaw wrote a series"
"the author there will be other short stories and novellas and novels that takes place in Paradise beside the main series. Victor Milan Victor Woodward Milán (August 3, 1954 in Tulsa, Oklahoma – February 13, 2018 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) was an American writer known for libertarian science fiction and an interest in cybernetics. In 1986 he won the Prometheus Award for ""Cybernetic Samurai"". He has also written several shared universe works for the Forgotten Realms, ""Star Trek"", ""BattleTech"" and ""Wild Cards"" series. He has also written books under the pseudonyms Richard Austin (Jove Books ""The Guardians"" series), Robert Baron"
"new version of the novela coming soon starring Aracely Arámbula. Corazón salvaje (novel) Corazón salvaje (; ) was a novel written by prolific Mexican writer Caridad Bravo Adams and published in 1957 after it had been adapted to the screen the previous year. The story takes place in Martinique in 1903 and describes the life in the Caribbean of a boy who grows up to be a pirate (while his half-brother goes to study in France), and the two sisters who fall in love with him. This novel, originally by Caridad Bravo Adams is set in the Caribbean, specifically in"
"writer. His other plays, ""The Primitive"" (1985) and ""The Other Shore"" (《彼岸》, 1986), all openly criticised the government's state policies. In 1986 Gao was misdiagnosed with lung cancer, and he began a 10-month trek along the Yangtze, which resulted in his novel ""Soul Mountain"" (《靈山》). The part-memoir, part-novel, first published in Taipei in 1990 and in English in 2000 by HarperCollins Australia, mixes literary genres and utilizes shifting narrative voices. It has been specially cited by the Swedish Nobel committee as ""one of those singular literary creations that seem impossible to compare with anything but themselves."" The book details his"
"Paul Newman and Jean Simmons and was directed by Robert Wise. Return to Paradise (short story collection) Return to Paradise (1951) is a collection of short stories written by American author James A. Michener. The collection is a sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning book ""Tales of the South Pacific"", the collection that launched his career in 1947. In ""Return to Paradise"", Michener revisits the islands and cultures of the South Pacific in the late 1940s, combining factual descriptions and tales set in such exotic places as Tahiti, Fiji, New Zealand, and Australia. ""The Mighty Ocean""<br>""The Atoll""<br>""Mr.Morgan""<br>""Polynesia""<br>""Povenaa's Daughter""<br>""Fiji""<br>""The Mynah Birds""<br>""Guadalcanal""<br>""The Story""<br>""Espiritu"
"brother—is not happiness. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PwUQvVVczI0J:www.enotes.com/topic/Paradise_of_the_Blind+&cd=8&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us Paradise of the Blind Paradise of the Blind (Những thiên đường mù) is a novel by female writer Dương Thu Hương, published in 1988. It was the first Vietnamese novel published in English in the United States. It is now banned in Vietnam because of the political views it expounds. Hang, the protagonist, journeys on a train to visit her Uncle Chinh. While on the train she remembers her life and various stories about her family through flashbacks. Hang is the narrator of the story. Throughout her journey to Moscow she recounts significant events in her"
"Corazón salvaje (novel) Corazón salvaje (; ) was a novel written by prolific Mexican writer Caridad Bravo Adams and published in 1957 after it had been adapted to the screen the previous year. The story takes place in Martinique in 1903 and describes the life in the Caribbean of a boy who grows up to be a pirate (while his half-brother goes to study in France), and the two sisters who fall in love with him. This novel, originally by Caridad Bravo Adams is set in the Caribbean, specifically in the French colonies. The Mexican adaptation is set in the"