On the Road - Jack Kerouac

By Jack Kerouac

Release Date: 1976-12-28

Genre: Literary Fiction

4 (613 ratings)
Jack Kerouac’s classic American novel of freedom and the search for originality that defined a generation

ā€œAn authentic work of art.ā€ā€”The New York Times
 
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 naĆÆvetĆ© and wild abandon 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.

On the Road - Jack Kerouac

By Jack Kerouac

Release Date: 1976-12-28

Genre: Literary Fiction

4 (613 ratings)
Jack Kerouac’s classic American novel of freedom and the search for originality that defined a generation

ā€œAn authentic work of art.ā€ā€”The New York Times
 
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 naĆÆvetĆ© and wild abandon 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.

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