![]() ![]() The truth is that the book actually had a much longer, bumpier journey from inspiration to publication, complete with multiple rewrites, repeated rejections and a dog who - well, On the Road wasn't homework, but we all know what dogs do.īut the scroll: That part's true. Legend has it that Kerouac wrote On the Road in three weeks, typing it almost nonstop on a 120-foot roll of paper. Today the beat travelogue continues to sell 100,000 copies a year in the U.S. “ Unbroken is too much book to hope for: a hellride of a story in the grip of.This September marks 50 years since Jack Kerouac's On the Road hit bookshelves, stirred controversy and spoke - in a new voice - to a generation of readers. ![]() tells story with cool elegance but at a thrilling sprinter’s pace.” - Time deserve pride of place alongside the best works of literature that chart the complications and the hard-won triumphs of so-called ordinary Americans and their extraordinary time.” -Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air It manages maximum velocity with no loss of subtlety.” - Newsweek Unbroken is wonderful twice over, for the tale it tells and for the way it’s told. a startling narrative and an inspirational book.” -The New York Times Book Review “A meticulous, soaring and beautifully written account of an extraordinary life.” -The Washington Post Hillenbrand’s writing is so ferociously cinematic, the events she describes so incredible, you don’t dare take your eyes off the page.” - People designed to wrench from self-respecting critics all the blurby adjectives we normally try to avoid: It is amazing, unforgettable, gripping, harrowing, chilling, and inspiring.” -New York a powerfully drawn survival epic.” - The Wall Street Journal Telling an unforgettable story of a man’s journey into extremity, Unbroken is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit. In her long-awaited new book, Laura Hillenbrand writes with the same rich and vivid narrative voice she displayed in Seabiscuit. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity suffering with hope, resolve, and humor brutality with rebellion. But when war had come, the athlete had become an airman, embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight, a tiny raft, and a drift into the unknown.Īhead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. In boyhood, he’d been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling, and fleeing his home to ride the rails. The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. ![]() Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: 2014’s Unbroken and the upcoming Unbroken: Path to Redemption.
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