On the Road

Jack Kerouac

Penguin Group USA, 2003 - Fiction - 307 pages

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." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to makeOn the Roadan inspirational work of lasting importance.

Kerouac’s classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be “Beat” and has inspired every generation since its initial publication more than forty years ago.

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User Review  - Danielle - Goodreads

Yes, it's an important classic. And yes, I can understand the many comparisons of its jazzy, staccato prose with music. (The style was the ONLY thing I enjoyed about the book!) And yes, I know it ...

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User Review  - Shannon - Goodreads

This was the first time that I read this book.I felt that it was good in that it really reminds you that the hippies were just another group who were into free love, drugs, road trips and music. It ...

About the author

Jack Kerouac(1922-1969), the central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. Among his many novels are On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Cody.
Ann Charters is the editor of The Portable Sixties Reader, The Portable Jack Kerouac, two volumes of Jack Kerouac's Selected Letters, and Beat Down to Your Soul. She teaches at the University of Connecticut.

Bibliographic information

• Title: On the Road; Penguin Classics
• Author: Jack Kerouac
• Contributor: Ann Charters
• Edition: reprint, revised
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2003
• ISBN: 0142437255, 9780142437254
• Length: 307 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary