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On the Road
Jack Kerouac
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Description for On the Road
Hardback.
Jack Kerouac's Great American Novel, now in a delightful new Clothbound Classics edition
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 and autobiographical passion.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241552643
SKU
9780241552643
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About Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. Educated by Jesuit brothers in Lowell, he decided to become a writer at age seventeen and developed his own writing style, which he called 'spontaneous prose'. He used this technique to record the life of the American 'traveler' and the experiences of the Beat Generation, most memorably in On the Road ... Read more
Reviews for On the Road
The most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as "beat"
The New York Times
Pop writing at its best. It changed the way I saw the world, making me yearn for fresh experience
Hanif Kureishi
Independent on Sunday
On the Road sold ... Read more
The New York Times
Pop writing at its best. It changed the way I saw the world, making me yearn for fresh experience
Hanif Kureishi
Independent on Sunday
On the Road sold ... Read more