On the Road

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Kerouac's quintessential novel of America and the Beat GenerationOn 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 forty years ago.





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.

Customer Reviews ::

not for me - JD -
I have never liked this book. I've read it three times, two of which were for class, and I think I actually like it less every time I read it. I find the content interesting, but the writing style just does not appeal to me. I certainly appreciate Kerouac's originality in terms of style, but I don't personally enjoy it. It annoys me the way that it rambles on and on. The beginning of the novel rambles and moves slow, but by the end the story just abruptly finishes. I just don't find it enjoyable to read.

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