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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.
- Jack Kerouac
- 1957
On the Road. Jack Kerouac. 3.61. 413,276 ratings19,927 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."
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Jun 1, 1999 · 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.
- Jack Kerouac
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Jan 28, 2020 · Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naiveté, wild ambition, and Kerouac’s love of America, compassion for humanity, and sense of language as jazz, On the Road is a novel of freedom and longing that defined the Beat generation and changed American literature.
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On the Road. (Penguin Orange Collection) By Jack Kerouac. Best Seller. Part of Penguin Orange Collection. Category: Literary Fiction | Classic Fiction. Paperback $18.00. Oct 18, 2016| ISBN 9780143129509. Buy. Paperback $18.00. Dec 28, 1976| ISBN 9780140042597. Buy. Ebook $13.99. Dec 28, 1976| ISBN 9781101127575. Buy. All Formats. +. Paperback$18.00
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...