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When it was first published in 1957, On the Road became a soul map for the nascent Beat Generation and turned Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac into a cult figure. Jack's book might be nothing more than a set of undisciplined comings and goings, a series of chaotic journeys involving two youths, one oversexed and one over-mothered.
Sep 5, 2023 · September 5, 2023, 12:23pm. On the Road, Jack Kerouac’s era-defining opus, was first published sixty-six years ago today. In the decades since, Kerouac’s autobiographical, stream-of-consciousness novel has sold more than 3 million copies, become a staple of high school English curricula countrywide, and been hailed as one of the most ...
“On the Road” in all of its versions is the story of a series of cross-country trips made by Kerouac between 1948 and 1950 — “trips” rather than “travels,” because they are all about...
Sep 5, 2014 · On September 5th, 1957, Viking Press released Jack Kerouac’s On The Road. The next month, The Atlantic’s Phoebe-Lou Adams was tasked with reviewing it.
Jack Kerouac. 3.61. 418,979 ratings20,489 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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Sep 5, 2017 · W hen Jack Kerouac’s On the Road was released on Sept. 5, 1957 — 60 years ago this Tuesday — the first impression of TIME’s critic was that the book was “partly an ingenuous travel book ...
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The idea for On the Road, Kerouac's second novel, was formed during the late 1940s, in a series of notebooks and then typed out, on a continuous reel of paper, during three weeks in April 1951. It was published by Viking Press in 1957.
