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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.
Jun 26, 2024 · Beat movement, American social and literary movement originating in the 1950s and centred in the bohemian artist communities of San Francisco’s North Beach, Los Angeles’ Venice West, and New York City’s Greenwich Village.
On The Road is a book about a man child young man named Sal who hitches rides across the country, giggling, having a string of meaningless relationships with characters that never reappear, and Sal worshipping his bestie, Dean, who has very little redeeming qualities.
May 23, 2012 · On the Road: Directed by Walter Salles. With Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Amy Adams. Young writer Sal Paradise has his life shaken by the arrival of free-spirited Dean Moriarty and his girl, Marylou.
Get all the key plot points of Jack Kerouac's On the Road on one page. From the creators of SparkNotes.
On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West."...
Dec 28, 1976 · Jack Kerouac's On the Road details Sal Paradise's (Kerouac's) adventures with some of his real-life friends and acquaintances as he travels around America during post-war 1940. Hailed as a definitive Beat Generation novel, it chronicles Sal's exploration for meaning, self-identity and independence.
- Jack Kerouac
