4,500 Miles: Taking Jack Back On the Road

4,500 Miles: Taking Jack Back on the Road A gonzo prose and photo/art book featuring the ghost of Jack Kerouac accompanying author Ciara Shuttleworth from the Jack Kerouac House in Orlando, Florida back to the scablands of Washington State. Photo editing by award-winning filmmaker and photographer Pamela Theodotou.



Advance Praise:



"Ciara Shuttleworth in her 4,500 mile journey creates a Kerouac-esque mosaic alongside her muse, "Flat Jack." How appropriate that her journey begins at the Kerouac House in Orlando where her storytelling spirit communed with that of Ti Jean to set her on a western course to formulate her take on the soul of America as Kerouac himself did more than a half century ago. It's a journey of discovery well worth taking."



-- Bob Kealing, author of the book, Kerouac in Florida: Where the Road Ends,

and co-founder of the Jack Kerouac Writers in Residence Project of Orlando



"With a little imagination, a paper "Flat Jack" becomes Shuttleworth's traveling companion as she journeys across America. Leaving from the Kerouac House in Orlando, Florida, together they visit her childhood home in Nebraska and beyond, visiting with various characters along the way. This book is for anyone who has ever dreamed of taking a road trip with Jack Kerouac; a modern glimpse of what On the Road might mean today, and finally a chance to ask Jack all those burning questions."



-- Summer Rodman, President of the Kerouac Project of Orlando