On the RoadThe 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 naiveté 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. |
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User Review - steve02476 - LibraryThingA you-are-there history from a few years before I was born (actually published a few months before i was born). I'm surprised I never read it before, I wonder what effect it would have had on me had I ... Read full review
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User Review - rsairs - LibraryThingI read this book 50 years ago as a teenager. I bought this copy at City Lights in San Francisco. I still don't understand how something can be so ugly and beautiful at the same time. I still can't figure how lives so degraded could at the same time be so transcendent. Read full review
Contents
Section 23 | 171 |
Section 24 | 175 |
Section 25 | 179 |
Section 26 | 183 |
Section 27 | 191 |
Section 28 | 197 |
Section 29 | 207 |
Section 30 | 213 |
Section 9 | 51 |
Section 10 | 57 |
Section 11 | 60 |
Section 12 | 80 |
Section 13 | 86 |
Section 14 | 103 |
Section 15 | 116 |
Section 16 | 118 |
Section 17 | 123 |
Section 18 | 129 |
Section 19 | 134 |
Section 20 | 149 |
Section 21 | 156 |
Section 22 | 167 |
Section 31 | 219 |
Section 32 | 224 |
Section 33 | 231 |
Section 34 | 239 |
Section 35 | 244 |
Section 36 | 249 |
Section 37 | 260 |
Section 38 | 268 |
Section 39 | 275 |
Section 40 | 292 |
Section 41 | 303 |
Section 42 | 311 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | On the Road Penguin Classics Deluxe |
| Author | Jack Kerouac |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Penguin, 1976 |
| ISBN | 1101127570, 9781101127575 |
| Length | 320 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / Classics Fiction / Coming of Age Fiction / Literary |
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