
Visions of Cody
Selections from the Novel
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Narrated by:
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Graham Parker
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By:
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Jack Kerouac
Originally written in 1951–1952, Visions of Cody was an underground classic by the time it was finally published in 1972, three years after Kerouac’s death. Utilizing a radical, experimental form (“the New Journalism fifteen years early,” as Dennis McNally noted in Desolate Angel), Kerouac examines his own New York life in a collection of colorful stream-of-consciousness essays. Always transfixed by Neal Cassady—here named Cody Pomeray—along with Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, Kerouac also explores the feelings he had for a man who inspired much of his work.
Transcribing taped conversations between members of their group as they took drugs and drank, Visions of Cody reveals an intimate portrait of people caught up in destructive relationships with substances, and one another, capturing the members of the Beat Generation in the years before any label had been affixed to them.
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Critic reviews
“To read On the Road but not Visions of Cody is to take a nice sightseeing tour but to forgo the spectacular rapids of Jack Kerouac’s wildest writings.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Visions of Cody is [Kerouac's] greatest book, according to his own opinion, and its music is testimony to [his] verbal inventiveness and virtuosity . . . the range and variation of style within his remarkably growing bookshelf is just as remarkable . . . there is a grace, a majesty, and a tenderness to his language . . . both the inspiration and the content of this literature is of an intuitive, emotional, and mystical nature.”—The Village Voice
"The most sincere and holy writing I know of our age."—Allen Ginsburg
“The centerpiece of all [Kerouac’s] novels.”—The Washington Post
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sit back and let it blow over you~~~
sit back and just dig it...really.
cool~~~
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good reading by mr parker
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It's hard to take and I foud myself dragging through this book in fits and starts only because of my dedication to Kerouac and the story.
Wrong voice for the material.
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Performance is good, but not right
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A English accent is terrible for a Jack Kerouac book
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Jazz & organ music accompanied the reading--ahhh!
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Kerouac deserves an American narrator and no background music please!
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An American Tale Told in a Strange Cockney Voice
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This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
This is horrible, it skips every part of the actual bookvery disappointed
Annoying British accent...
Would you ever listen to anything by Jack Kerouac again?
yesWhat didn’t you like about Graham Parker’s performance?
everythingYou didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
nopeWhat...
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Music was only an enhancement to make more negative
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