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On the road

Kerouac, JackCharters, Ann(Introduction by)
Part of the Great Kerouac series
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'I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's' Bob DylanSal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero, the mystical traveller 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 Kerouac's exhilarating novel swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion.

One of the most influential and important novels of the 20th century, this is the book that launched the Beat Generation and remains the bible of that literary movement.

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Penguin Classics
0241347955 / 9780241347959
Paperback / softback
813.54
02/08/2018
United Kingdom
English
Classics
320 pages
19 cm
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Viking Press, 1957.