On the Road
$23.06
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
12 May 2011
Summary
The exhilarating novel that defined the Beat Generation
“What’s your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It’s an anywhere road for anybody anyhow.”
Sal Paradise, young and 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 lim…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241951538 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241951534 |
| Author: | Jack Kerouac |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 12 May 2011 |
| Weight: | 161g |
| Dimensions: | 181mm x 112mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Penguin Essentials |
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Pop writing at its best. It changed the way I saw the world, making me yearn for fresh experience
Pop writing at its best. It changed the way I saw the world, making me yearn for fresh experience – Hanif Kureishi * Independent on Sunday *On the Road sold a trillion Levis and a million espresso machines, and also sent countless kids on the road. The alienation, the restlessness, the dissatisfaction were already there waiting when Kerouac pointed out the road – William Burroughs
About The Author
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. Educated by Jesuit brothers in Lowell, he decided to become a writer at age seventeen and developed his own writing style, which he called ‘spontaneous prose’. He used this technique to record the life of the American ‘traveler’ and the experiences of the Beat Generation, most memorably in On the Road and also in The Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums. His other works include Big Sur, Desolation Angels, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Gerard, Tristessa, and a book of poetry called Mexico City Blues. Jack Kerouac died in 1969.
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