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On the Road
Jack Kerouac

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On the Road

Penguin Classics (24 Feb 2000)
9780141182674
| Paperback
320 pages | 129 x 198 mm | English
$ 8.99 | Value: $ 8.99
Dewey 813

Subject

  • Beat Generation
  • Fiction / General
  • Fiction / Literary

Plot

On the Roadswings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognised as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than F. Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion. 'A paean to what Kerouac described as "the ragged and ecstatic joy of pure being ".' Sunday Times