On the Road: The Original Scroll
On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent 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...
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On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent 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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780670063550 (067006355X)
Publish date: August 16th 2007
Publisher: Viking Adult
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Classics,
Novels,
Travel,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
American,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Modern Classics
This is the book which has given me anxiety attacks on sleepless nights.This is the book which has glared at me from its high pedestal of classical importance in an effort to browbeat me into finally finishing it. And this is that book which has shamed me into feigning an air of ignorance every time...
Maybe the expectations were too high, but the book just wasn't great. There were good moments, but ultimately, it was neither philosophical nor a particularly interesting journey. Just a bunch of boys hiding from adulthood and responsibility by running from things. I guess they discover actual Bu...
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