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On The Road

On The Road

by Jack Kerouac
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/09/2008
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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 conman with the shining mind', Dean Moriarty traverse the country in search of life and experience.

Wild and exuberant, this life-changing novel defined the Beat generation and inspired countless others.


ISBN:
9780141037486
9780141037486
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-09-2008
Publisher:
Penguin Books, Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
300
Dimensions (mm):
181x114x19mm
Weight:
0.17kg
Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922. In 1947, enthused by bebop, the rebel attitude of his friend Neal Cassidy, and the throng of hobos, drug addicts and hustlers he encountered in New York, he decided to discover America and hitchhhike across the country.

His writing was openly autobiographical and he developed a style he referred to as 'spontaneous prose' which he used to record the experiences of the Beat Generation. Among his many novels are On the Road, Maggie Cassidy, The Subterraneans, The Dharma Bums and Big Sur. He died in 1969.

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