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On the Road: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jack KerouacSeries:Penguin Classics Deluxe EditionAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1999-06-01Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140283297ISBN-10:140283293UPC:9780140283297Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, Coming of AgeSize:8.42 x 5.62 x 0.82 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SC81X8QRT0

The legendary novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation, now in a striking new Pengiun Classics Deluxe Edition

Inspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naivet and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140283297ISBN-10:140283293UPC:9780140283297Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, Coming of AgeSize:8.42 x 5.62 x 0.82 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SC81X8QRT0
Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. His first novel, The Town and the City, appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady, that epitomized to the world what became known as the "Beat generation" and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed, among them The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, and Big Sur. Kerouac considered all of his autobiographical fiction to be part of "one vast book," The Duluoz Legend. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven.
Publisher: Penguin Classics

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