On the Road

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The Beat poet's semi-autobiographical work.
Regarded as the quintessential work of the Beat Generation’s literary output, Jack Kerouac wrote 'On the Road' in a marathon peyote-fuelled writing session on one long piece of paper, prompting Truman Capote to remark "That’s not writing, that’s typing”.

Even today though, whichever view you take of this influential generation, 'On The Road' remains a vivid, blood-thumping and at times lucid account of this most experimental group of writers.

'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. Kerouac’s face-paced method of writing evokes the bebop jazz of the time, a sharp contrast to the methodical, constructing lyricism of the jazz-age greats that preceded him.
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Weight 0.236000
Author Kerouac, Jack
Availability IP
Department Literature
Format Paperback
ISBN 9780141182674
Pages 320
Published 24/02/2000
Publisher Penguin
Section Literature
Series Penguin Modern Classics
Size Unfolded 13x20cm
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