On the Road (Popular Penguins) - Softcover

Jack Kerouac

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141037482 ISBN 13: 9780141037486

Publisher: Penguin, 2008

Synopsis

Sal paradise, a young innocent, joins the slightly crazed dean moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the united states their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the american dream a brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, jack kerouacs exhilerating novel defined the new beat generation it had tremendous impact on both sides of the atlantic and made him famous overnight

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Review

On The Road, the most famous of Jack Kerouac's works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century. Like nearly all of Kerouac's writing, On The Road is thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac's real life friends, lovers, and fellow travelers. Narrated by Sal Paradise, one of Kerouac's alter-egos, On the Road is a cross-country bohemian odyssey that not only influenced writing in the years since its 1957 publication but penetrated into the deepest levels of American thought and culture.

About the Author

Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), father of the beat generation, was one of the most inventive writers of the twentieth century. He was the author of On the Road, The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, and many other books.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0141037482
• ISBN 13: 9780141037486
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 291