On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
3.5
(83 ratings)310 pages3 editions1999Penguin BooksISBN 9780140283297
Beat generationFictionAutobiographical fictionBeat generation in literatureHistory and criticismAmerican Autobiographical fictionLiteratureClassic LiteratureBeat generation -- FictionBeats (Persons)BohemianismDrugsJazzKerouac, Jack, 1922-1969Literature - Classics / CriticismLiterature: ClassicsClassicsFiction / LiteraryPage proofs (Printing)Reading Level-Grade 11
About this book
FROM THE PUBLISHER : On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassidy, "a side burned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make On the Road an inspirational work of lasting importance. Kerouac's classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be "Beat" and has inspired every generation since its initial publication more than forty years ago.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Published
- 1999
- Pages
- 310
- ISBN
- 9780140283297
- Language
- en
- Editions
- 3
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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