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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. The novel is a roman à clef, with many ...
- Jack Kerouac
- 1957
On the Road, novel by Jack Kerouac, written over the course of three weeks in 1951 and published in 1957. SUMMARY: The free-form book describes a series of frenetic trips across the United States by a number of penniless young people who are in love with life, beauty, jazz, sex, drugs, speed, and mysticism and who have absolute contempt for ...
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3.61. 414,821 ratings20,096 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." As "Sal Paradise" & "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge & experience.
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On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy ...
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On the Road Summary. Next. Part 1, Chapter 1. Sal Paradise recalls when he first met Dean Moriarty, who came to New York City from Colorado with his new wife Marylou and asked Sal to teach him how to write. Sal was struck by Dean’s mad enthusiasm for life, and the two became friends, as Dean also got to know Sal’s close friend Carlo Marx.
Dec 31, 2002 · On the Road. Jack Kerouac. 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 YearsOn the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a ...
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On the Road. Jack Kerouac. Penguin, Dec 28, 1976 - Fiction - 320 pages. Jack Kerouac’s classic American novel of freedom and the search for originality that defined a generation. “An authentic work of art.”—The New York Times. Inspired by Jack Kerouac’s adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose ...
