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On September 5, 1957, Jack Kerouac's novel ON THE ROAD was published. Since then, few books have had as profound an impact on American culture. Pulsating with the rhythms of late-1940s/1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road, Kerouac?s classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be?Beat? and has inspired generations of writers, musicians, artists, poets and seekers who cite their discovery of the book as the event that?set them free.? Based on Kerouac?s adventures with Neal Cassady, ON THE ROAD tells the story of two friends whose four cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Expressing a mixture of sad-eyed naïveté and wild abandon, 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. It changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up.
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Long and winding tale of a few young men looking for happiness in all the wrong places. A description of their lives, unhindered by any form of plot or character development. Superb writing, but going nowhere slow.
This a book that really changed my life in highschool it help me turn to a different direction in my life that allow me to grow as an individual. I really feel that anyone who really reads this will find themselves changed for the better
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