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Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American Dream.
A brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, Jack Kerouac's exhilarating novel defined the new 'Beat' generation and became the bible of the counter culture.
'On the Road sold a trillion Levis and a million espresso machines, and also sent countless kids on the road. The alienation, the restlessness, the dissatisfaction were already there waiting when Kerouac pointed out the road' William Burroughs
'Pop writing at its best. It changed the way I saw the world, making me yearn for fresh experience' Hanif Kureishi
About the Author
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was an American novelist, poet, artist and part of the Beat Generation. His first published novel, The Town and the City, appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published in 1957, that made Kerouac famous. Publication of his many other books followed, among them The Subterraneans, Big Sur, and The Dharma Bums. Kerouac died in Florida at the age of forty-seven.
The most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as "beat" The New York Times I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's -- Bob Dylan
ISBN: 9780140265002
ISBN-10: 0140265007
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 288
Published: 20th August 2012
Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 13.2
x 1.7
Weight (kg): 19.6
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