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The classic novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation
September 5th, 2017 marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of On the Road Inspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naivet and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up.
September 5th, 2017 marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of On the Road Inspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naivet and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
- ISBN: 9780140042597
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 7.75 x 0.69
- Number Of Pages: 320
- Publication Year: 1976
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Epic, Beat journey, truly captures a moment in history
Would RecommendBecky G. - 22 days agoThe first time I read OTR I was as a high school junior in 1992, not only did it spark my curiosity in the Beat Generation it sent me on a ques to learn as much as I could about the author. I have since re-read it several times with more and more knowledge about JK and his incessant and torturing quest to put words to the page. It is truly a story that is a snapshot of a particular time where the adventurous spirit could hitch hike their way across the country and its boarders for months and months with little to no money in their pockets. It's manic and cumbersome, sloppy and stressful and strange....but truly epic and fantastically aspirational, to a reader who knows full-well it could not be repeated. OTR was the catalyst for my love story with Beat literature.