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Jack Kerouac''s Great American Novel, now in a delightful new Clothbound Classics edition

On the Road swings 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 recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion.



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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 *
Pop writing at its best. It changed the way I saw the world, making me yearn for fresh experience -- Hanif Kureishi * Independent on Sunday *
On the Road sold a trillion Levis and a million espresso machines, and also sent countless kids on the road -- William Burroughs

On the Road

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    A Hardback by Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 3 March 2022
      ISBN-13 9780241552643
      978-0241552643
      ISBN-10 0241552648
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction Books by Jack Kerouac

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Jack Kerouac''s Great American Novel, now in a delightful new Clothbound Classics edition

      On the Road swings 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 recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion.



      Trade Review

      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 *
      Pop writing at its best. It changed the way I saw the world, making me yearn for fresh experience -- Hanif Kureishi * Independent on Sunday *
      On the Road sold a trillion Levis and a million espresso machines, and also sent countless kids on the road -- William Burroughs

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