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On the Road is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use. The novel is a roman à clef, with many ...
- Jack Kerouac
- 1957
(Book 484 from 1001 1001 books) - On the Road, Jack Kerouac Based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. The two main characters of the book are the narrator, Sal Paradise, and his friend Dean Moriarty, much admired for his carefree attitude and sense of adventure, a free-spirited maverick eager to explore all kicks ...
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Jun 1, 1999 · On the Road. Paperback – Deckle Edge, June 1, 1999. Inspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naiveté and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouac's love of America, his ...
- Jack Kerouac
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- Penguin Classics
“On the Road has the kind of drive that blasts through to a large public. . . . What makes the novel really important, what gives it that drive is a genuine new, engaging and exciting prose style. . . . What keeps the book going is the power and beauty of the writing.” –Kenneth Rexroth, San Francisco Chronicle
- Paperback
Dec 31, 2002 · Penguin, Dec 31, 2002 - Fiction - 352 pages. The classic novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generationOne of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsOn the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West."
About On the Road. The legendary novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation, now in a striking new Pengiun Classics Deluxe Edition Inspired by Jack Kerouac’s adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience.
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Penguin, Dec 28, 1976 - Fiction - 320 pages. Jack Kerouac’s classic American novel of freedom and the search for originality that defined a generation. “An authentic work of art.”—The New York Times. Inspired by Jack Kerouac’s adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a ...
