On the Road - (Penguin Orange Collection) by Jack Kerouac (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>First published in 1957, this novel epitomized to the world the Beat philosophy. It chronicles a spontaneous and wandering life style founded both on jazz and drug-induced visions.<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<br></b><br><b>September 5th, 2017 marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of <i>On the Road</i></b> <p/>Inspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, <i>On the Road</i> 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 naiveté and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, <i>On the Road</i> is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up.<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>Jack Kerouac(1922-1969), 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 <b>On the Road</b>, <b>The Dharma Bums</b>, <b>Big Sur</b>, and <b>Visions of Cody</b>.
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