On the Road - (Penguin Classics) by Jack Kerouac (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Jack Kerouac's classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be "Beat" and has inspired every generation since its initial publication more than 40 years ago.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The classic novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation</b> <p/><b>September 5th, 2017 marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of <i>On the Road</i></b> <p/> <i>On the Road </i>chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, a sideburned hero of the snowy West. As Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make <i>On the Road</i> an inspirational work of lasting importance. Kerouac's classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be "Beat" and has inspired every generation since its initial publication more than fifty years ago. This Penguin Classics edition contains an introduction by Ann Charters. <p/>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>An authentic work of art . . . the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat, ' and whose principal avatar he is.<br> <b>--Gilbert Millstein, <i>The New York Times <br></i></b><br> <i>On the Road</i> has the kind of drive that blasts through to a large public. . . . What makes the novel really important, what gives it that drive is a genuine new, engaging and exciting prose style. . . . What keeps the book going is the power and beauty of the writing.<br> <b>--Kenneth Rexroth, <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i></b> <p/> One of the finest novels of recent years. . . a highly euphoric and intensely readable story about a group of wandering young hedonists who cross the country in endless search of kicks.<br> <b>--Leonard Feather, <i>Downbeat </i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)</b>, the central figure of the Beat Generation, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969. Among his many novels are <i>On the Road</i>, <i>The Dharma Bums</i>, <i>Big Sur</i>, and <i>Visions of Cody</i>. <p/><b>Ann Charters</b> is a Professor of American Literature at the University of Connecticut. She is the editor of <i>The Portable Sixties Reader</i>, <i>The Portable Jack Kerouac</i>, two volumes of Jack Kerouac's <i>Selected Letters</i>, and <i>Beat Down to Your Soul</i>. She teaches at the University of Connecticut.
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