On the Road by Jack Kerouac is the exhilarating novel that defined the Beat Generation and is a 2012 major motion picture starring Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst and Sam Riley, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.
Jack Kerouac died in 1969..
His other works include Big Sur, Desolation Angels, Lonesome Traveler, Visions of Gerard, Tristessa, and a book of poetry called Mexico City Blues.
He used this technique to record the life of the American \'traveler\' and the experiences of the Beat Generation, most memorably in On the Road and also in The Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums.
Educated by Jesuit brothers in Lowell, he decided to become a writer at age seventeen and developed his own writing style, which he called \'spontaneous prose\'. - Hanif Kureishi, Independent on Sunday Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922.
It changed the way I saw the world, making me yearn for fresh experience. - William Burroughs Pop writing at its best.
The alienation, the restlessness, the dissatisfaction were already there waiting when Kerouac pointed out the road.
On the Road sold a trillion Levis and a million espresso machines, and also sent countless kids on the road.
A brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, Jack Kerouac\'s exhilarating novel defined the new \'Beat\' generation and became the bible of the counter culture.
Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American Dream.
It\'s an anywhere Road for anybody anyhow.\' Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. \'What\'s your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road.
On the Road by Jack Kerouac is the exhilarating novel that defined the Beat Generation and is a 2012 major motion picture starring Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst and Sam Riley, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range
