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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
DETAIL: Jack Kerouac’s On the Road has become a classic text in American literary counterculture. Set in the aftermath of the Second World War, Sal Paradise’s account of his travels across America has become emblematic of the struggle to retain the freedom of the American dream in a more sober historical moment.
- Nicky Marsh
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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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Dec 31, 2002 · 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."...
A classic novel of freedom and longing that defined the Beat generation. Follow Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty as they travel across America in search of self-knowledge and experience.
Learn about the plot, characters, and themes of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road, a classic of the Beat Generation. Explore study tools, summaries, essays, and more with SparkNotes.
