Inspired by jack kerouacs travels across america with fellow beat writers, on the road tells the story of two friends whose crosscountry road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. When jack kerouacs on the road first appeared in 1957, readers instantly felt the beat of a new literary rhythm. Born in massachusetts in 1922, kerouac attended prep school in new y. On the road chronicles jack kerouacs years traveling the north american continent with his friend neal cassady, a sideburned hero of the snowy west.
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Originally subtitled an adventurous education, 19351946, vanity of duluoz is a key volume in jack kerouacs lifework, the series of autobiographical novels he referred to as the legend of duluoz. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading on the road. Kerouacs best known works are on the road and the dharma bums. Jack kerouac19221969, the central figure of the beat generation, was born in lowell, massachusetts, in 1922 and died in st. As sal paradise and dean moriarty, the two roam the country in a quest for selfknowledge and experience. His status as a beat icon has continued to make him an emblem of romantic rebellion while sometimes obscuring the extent of his literary ambitions and the years of disciplined experiment that went into the creation of. Inspired by jack kerouacs adventures with neal cassady, on the road tells the story of two friends whose crosscountry road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. No 76 on the road by jack kerouac 1957 the creative history of kerouacs beatgeneration classic, fuelled by pea soup and benzedrine, has become as famous as the novel. On the road, the most famous of jack kerouacs works, is not only the soul of the beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century.
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