On the Road

Jack Kerouac

ISBN 10: 0451165624 / ISBN 13: 9780451165626

Published by Signet Book September 1958, 1958

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Cover not as depicted. Pages yellowing from age.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: On the Road
• Publisher: Signet Book September 1958
• Publication Date: 1958
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451165624
• ISBN 13: 9780451165626
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Condition: Used - Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

"The only people for me are the mad ones," wrote Jack Kerouac, "the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars." "On the Road" is the classic story of two such characters: Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, who set off on an odyssey through 1950s underground America, fueled by jazz, sex, drugs, mystical philosophy, and a limitless passion for experience.

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 fictionalised autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac's real life friends, lovers and fellow travellers. Narrated by Sal Paradise, one of Kerouac's alter-egos, this cross-country bohemian odyssey not only influenced writing in the years since its 1957 publication but penetrated into the deepest levels of American thought and culture. --Acton Lane