On the road
by Jack Kerouac
3.5
(84 ratings)310 pages1991Penguin BooksISBN 9780140185218
Beat generation -- Fiction
About this book
In its time, Kerouac's masterpiece was the bible of the Beat Generation. Now, this modern classic goes racing toward the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy, and autobiographical passion, swinging to the solemn rhythms of 1950's underground America.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Published
- 1991
- Pages
- 310
- ISBN
- 9780140185218
- Language
- en
About Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian ancestry. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. He became an underground celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements.
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