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On the Road

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‘The most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat.’ - the New York Times

On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion.

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Format

Paperback

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Country

United Kingdom

Date

13 August 2007

Pages

320

ISBN

9780141182674

‘The most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat.’ - the New York Times

Format

Paperback

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Country

United Kingdom

Date

13 August 2007

Pages

320

ISBN

9780141182674

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