On the Road Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast. As he travels across 1950s America, aspiring writer Sal Paradise chronicles his escapades with the charismatic Dean Moriarty. Sal admires Dean's passion for experiencing as much as possible of life and his wild flights of poetic fancy. |
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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
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Bibliographic information
| Title | On the Road Penguin Classics |
| Author | Jack Kerouac |
| Contributor | Ann Charters |
| Publisher | Penguin Books, 2002 |
| ISBN | 141762471X, 9781417624713 |
| Length | 307 pages |
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