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Summary:
A 50th anniversary hardcover edition of
Kerouacs classic novel that defined a generation Few novels
have had as profound an impact on American culture as On the
Road. Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America,
jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the
open road, Kerouacs classic novel of freedom and longing
defined what it meant to be beat and has inspired generations
of writers, musicians, artists, poets, and seekers who cite
their discovery of the book as the event that set them free.
Based on Kerouacs adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road
tells the story of two friends whose four cross-country road
trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with
a mixture of sad-eyed naïveté and wild abandon, and
imbued with Kerouacs 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. This hardcover edition commemorates the fiftieth
anniversary of the first publication of the novel in 1957 and
will be a must-have for any literature lover.
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