On the Road
(Penguin Orange Collection)
$38.76
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
18 October 2016
Summary
Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback.
Jack Kerouac’s On the Road rocked the establishment with its seminal, stream-of-consciousness portrayal of 1950s underground America. Amidst a whirlwind of sex, drugs and jazz, writer Sal Paradise and his hero ‘the holy con-man with the shining mind’, Dean Moriarty traverse the country i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143129509 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0143129503 |
| Author: | Jack Kerouac |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 18 October 2016 |
| Weight: | 295g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Penguin Orange Collection |
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Critics Review
“Life is great, and few can put the zest and wonder and sadness and humor of it on paper more interestingly than Kerouac.” - San Francisco Chronicle
“An authentic work of art … the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as ‘beat,’ and whose principal avatar he is.”
–Gilbert Millstein, The New York Times
“On the Road has the kind of drive that blasts through to a large public… . What makes the novel really important, what gives it that drive is a genuine new, engaging and exciting prose style… . What keeps the book going is the power and beauty of the writing.”
–Kenneth Rexroth, San Francisco Chronicle
“One of the finest novels of recent years… a highly euphoric and intensely readable story about a group of wandering young hedonists who cross the country in endless search of kicks.”
–Leonard Feather, Downbeat
About The Author
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), the central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. He published his first novel, The Town in the Country, in 1950, but success and fame came in 1957 with On the Road. Among his many novels are The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, and Visions of Cody.
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