The indisputable bible of the Beat Generation, On the Road (1957) fictionalizes Kerouac\'s years traveling the North American continent with his friend, Neal Cassidy.
Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naivet and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouac\'s love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up..
The legendary novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation, now in a striking new Pengiun Classics Deluxe Edition Inspired by Jack Kerouac\'s adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience.
The indisputable bible of the Beat Generation, On the Road (1957) fictionalizes Kerouac\'s years traveling the North American continent with his friend, Neal Cassidy