On the Road
Book - 2003 Fiction / Kerouac, Jack None on shelf 2 requests on 1 copy
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Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast. As he travels across 1950s America, aspiring writer Sal Paradise chronicles his escapades with the charismatic Dean Moriarty. Sal admires Dean's passion for experiencing as much as possible of life and his wild flights of poetic fancy.
COMMUNITY REVIEWS
I just reread it submitted by SaraP on July 7, 2020, 9:23am I read it when I was in college in the early 90s and was unimpressed. I just reread it this summer and liked it a lot more. The style and description is pretty impressive.
SERIES
Penguin classics.
PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Books, 2003.
Year Published: 2003
Description: 307 p. ; 20 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
READING LEVEL
Lexile: 930
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780670063260 (50th anniv. ed.)
0142437255
9780142437254
SUBJECTS
Beat generation -- Fiction.
Autobiographical fiction.