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Jack Kerouac: Road Novels 1957-1960: On the Road by Jack Kerouac; [edited by Douglas Brinkley] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The raucous, exuberant, often wildly funny account of a journey through America and Mexico, Jack Kerouac's <i>On the Road</i> instantly defined a generation on its publication in 1957: it was, in the words of a <i>New York Times</i> reviewer, "the clearest and most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat.'&nbsp;" Written in the mode of ecstatic improvisation that Allen Ginsberg described as "spontaneous bop prosody," Kerouac's novel remains electrifying in its thirst for experience and its defiant rebuke of American conformity. <br> <br> In his portrayal of the fervent relationship between the writer Sal Paradise and his outrageous, exasperating, and inimitable friend, Dean Moriarty, Kerouac created one of the great friendships in American literature; and his rendering of the cities and highways and wildernesses that his characters restlessly explore are a hallucinatory travelogue of a nation he both mourns and celebrates. Now the Library of America collects <i>On the Road</i> together with four other autobiographical "road books" published during a remarkable four-year period. <br> <br> <i>The Dharma Bums</i> (1958), at once an exp

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Author

Jack Kerouac; [edited by Douglas Brinkley]

Publisher

Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781598530124

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

4.14 / 5 (319 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14