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On the Road (Penguin Modern Classics)


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Date Created: 2010-09-08
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Author: Jack Kerouac
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Publisher: Penguin
Edition: New Ed
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Publication Year: 2000
ISBN#: 0-14-118267-9
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Pages: 320
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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