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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.
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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Sep 16, 2022 · on the road. by. jack kerouac. Publication date. 1957. Publisher. The New American Library, Inc. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled.
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.
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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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.
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