Kerouac's Crooked Road: Development of a Fiction
"One leaves Tim Hunt's Kerouac's Crooked Road with the feeling  that no  one has ever really read such a familiar novel as On the Road before . .  . .  [This] is an enormously stimulating and rewarding study of a writer who  may have  been too quickly undervalued."  --Warren French, Studies in American  Fiction"[Hunt] demonstrates that Kerouac's fiction, unlike the commonly  accepted notion of it as the work of a talented but undisciplined  writer, is the  result of labor and thought . . . [and]  gives as lucid an explanation  as I have  seen of Kerouac's 'spontaneous prose' and 'sketching,' relating both of  these to  jazz and painting."  --The Review of Contemporary Fiction