{"product_id":"0887622798-what_happened_later","title":"What Happened Later","description":"\n\n\u003cp\u003ePoetic, poignant and clever, \u003ci\u003eWhat Happened Later\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique and engaging story of two lives that were forever changed by one book. In 1967, only ten years after the sensational success of \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e, Jack Kerouac was a physically broken, spiritually lost man. Late that summer, accompanied by his friend, Joe Chaput, Kerouac set out for Riviere-du-Loup, Quebec, on a spiritual quest to connect with his French-Canadian roots. Predictably, the trip was a drunken, chaotic disaster, and a little more than two years afterward, Kerouac was dead. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifteen years later, after falling under the spell of the larger-than-life-myth of Jack Kerouac, a working-class, small-town Ontario teenager named Ray Robertson embarked upon his own quest -- to own a copy of \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebuffed at every turn in his attempt to possess the elusive novel, Robertson nonetheless slowly begins to recognize the existence of a world beyond the factories, hockey rinks and suburbs of his hometown, and also begins to comprehend his own French-Canadian heritage. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking its title from Kerouac himself -- \u003ci\u003eWhat Happened Later\u003c\/i\u003e was the title of his proposed sequel to \u003ci\u003eOn the Road,\u003c\/i\u003e -- this novel tells the story of what happened after the fame generated by Kerouac's famous book and what happened next in the life of a young man infatuated with the legendary author. Interweaving the story of one author's slow decline with one boy's literary coming of age, \u003ci\u003eWhat Happened Later\u003c\/i\u003e explores the ever-shifting dualities of myth and reality, loss and hope, innocence and experience, endings and beginnings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiterature \u0026amp; Fiction\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Thomas Allen Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Used - Good","offer_id":47679719407806,"sku":"0887622798-4","price":18.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/513E0IXjQ2L._SL500.jpg?v=1781803269","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/0887622798-what_happened_later","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}