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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780140283297
ISBN: 0140283293
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: June 01, 1999
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Sales Rank: 3642
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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First published in 1957, this novel epitomized to the world the Beat philosophy. It chronicles a spontaneous and wandering life style founded both on jazz and drug-induced visions.
Amazon.com Review:
On The Road, the most famous of Jack Kerouac's works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century. Like nearly all of Kerouac's writing, On The Road is thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac's real life friends, lovers, and fellow travelers. Narrated by Sal Paradise, one of Kerouac's alter-egos, On the Road is a cross-country bohemian odyssey that not only influenced writing in the years since its 1957 publication but penetrated into the deepest levels of American thought and culture.
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I have lost count of how many copies of this book I have bought and given away over the years. A must read and a great book to give away to friends and family. I want everyone in the world to read this book.
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A book about several trips by the author across the USA, east to west, and (in the last account) down into Mexico, in the misspent days of his youth, usually with his wayward pal Dean Moriarty.
The author's method of writing is to chuck loads of material into the book. So we have detail, detail, detail. Bars, people, places to sleep, rides taken, jobs done, women slept with, locations travelled through, yellow sunrises, mauve sunsets, mountains, more people, etc etc. The book doesn't ... Read More
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Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2ROJFBGOFUASY I was a little afraid to revisit Kerouac's classic given that I am no longer an adolescent. It still holds up in my mind and I enjoyed rereading it very much.
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Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was initially fascinated by the heavily ornate style of novelist Thomas Wolfe, a writer best known for LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL; at the same time, however, he led an outsider's life that placed him on the fringe of American society, drifting across the country with little more than the clothes on his back, drinking hard, using drugs, and occasionally involved--at least in a passive sense--with a series of criminal activies, most notably Lucien Carr's murder of David Kammerer. ... Read More
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On the Road: one of those books that people will claim they've read in order to sound cool at snooty parties or score with the earnest and naive alterna-chick, who is amazingly non-conformist, just like all her friends of course. This is a book that far more people claim to have read than have actually read, and among those of us that have actually read it, we come away feeling "wow, what the heck was all the fuss about?" I'll offer the benefit of the doubt and suggest it maybe was fresh, interesting, ... Read More
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