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 . ''
When the book was originally released , the New York Times hailed it as `` the most beautifully executed , the clearest and most important utterance '' of Kerouac 's generation .