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413,741 ratings19,975 reviews. A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the N. American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" & "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge & experience.
Mar 20, 2013 · Although Jack Kerouac's “On the Road” has been praised as a milestone in American literature, this film version brings into question how much of a story it really offers.
Sep 5, 2017 · W hen Jack Kerouac’s On the Road was released on Sept. 5, 1957 — 60 years ago this Tuesday — the first impression of TIME’s critic was that the book was “partly an ingenuous travel book ...
“On the Road” in all of its versions is the story of a series of cross-country trips made by Kerouac between 1948 and 1950 — “trips” rather than “travels,” because they are all about covering...
Jack Kerouac's legendary novel ON THE ROAD chronicles the road trips of two friends, Sal and Dean (based on the author and Neal Cassady, respectively), who travel the United States and Mexico, experiencing a life fueled and heightened by drugs, alcohol, and sex.
Learn how his iconic book 'On the Road' came to be. Jack Kerouac is known as the King of the Beats. He was a poet, novelist and all-round inspiration for questing individuals.
On the Road – Jack Kerouac’s autobiographical novel of the exhilarating and exhausting cross-country road trips of 20-somethings Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty – was such an enormous watershed in American culture that it seems quite fitting that its 50th anniversary should be noted by Viking with no less than three newly published books ...
