On the road

Jack Kerouac

Buccaneer Books, Incorporated, 1975 - Fiction - 310 pages

Few novels have had as profound an impact as On the Road, and Kerouac's vision continues to inspire: three generations of writers, musicians, artists, and poets cite their discovery of On the Road as the event that "set them free." This hardcover edition commemorates the fortieth anniversary of the original publication of an American classic. On the Road chronicles Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent, from East Coast to West Coast to Mexico, with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty, " the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make On the Road an inspirational work of lasting importance.

What people are saying

Review: On the Road (Duluoz Legend)

User Review  - Tracy Tibbels - Goodreads

I'm always amazed by what other people think of as a 'classic'. Even the little blurb on the back of the book claims this book changes the lives of those who read it.... Wow. Really? I suppose it was ...

Review: On the Road (Duluoz Legend)

User Review  - Jóhanna Ýr - Goodreads

This book was difficult to finish. I only finished it this morning and man, was I happy to get it off my back. On the road is the story of Sal Paradise and his madman friend Dean Moriarty and their ...

About the author

Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. His first novel, The Town and the City, was published in 1950. He considered all of his "true story novels," including On the Road, to be chapters of "one vast book," his autobiographical Legend of Duluoz. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969 at the age of forty-seven.

Bibliographic information

• Title: On the road; The American studies collection
• Author: Jack Kerouac
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Buccaneer Books, Incorporated, 1975
• ISBN: 0899661343, 9780899661346
• Length: 310 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary