On the Road

Author(s): Jack Kerouac

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"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 make "On the Road" an 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 fifty years ago."


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Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003. Shortlisted for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.

The name Jack Kerouac is synonymous with cool, beatnik vibes and this novel is his masterpiece. Jack and his friend Neal, "Sal" and "Dean" in the book, take the ultimate US road trip that leads them to interesting encounters, all written in a loose freestyle form of writing. Stunningly of its time yet timeless, this is an atmospheric poetic ride - Elisa, Book Grocer

Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969) was an American novelist, poet, artist and part of the Beat Generation. Most of his life was spent in the vast landscapes of America or living with his mother, with whom he spent most of his life. Kerouac's best known works are On the Road and The Dharma Bums. Ann Charters, professor of English at the University of Connecticut, has been interested in Beat writers since 1956, when as an undergraduate English major she attended the repeat performance of the Six Gallery poetry reading in Berkeley where Allen Ginsberg gave his sencond public reading of Howl. After his death she wrote the first Kerouac biography and edited his posthumous collection, Scattered Poems. She was the general editor of the two-volume encyclopaedia The Beats: Literary Bohemians In Postwar America and has published a collection of her photographic portraits of well-known writers in the book Beats & Company.

General Fields

  • : 9780141182674
  • : penguin
  • : penguin
  • : 0.24
  • : May 2007
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 18mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Jack Kerouac
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : en
  • : 813.54
  • : 320
  • : FA