On the Road

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Jack Kerouac: On the Road (1976, Penguin Books)

Paperback, 307 pages

English language

Published May 13, 1976 by Penguin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-14-004259-7
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OCLC Number:
21767041
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70401

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Story of two restless young men in the late 1940s who cross and recross America, encountering parties, girls, drugs, loneliness and their own dreams along the way.

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I bought a ticket for the first train.

That was it. I closed the book, talked to a friend about it, threw a few things into a backpack, and we bought a ticket for the first train leaving the station. It was around ’91 or ’92, and it’s an experience I’ll never forget. It was a book that marked entire generations, but nowadays, when everything is so certain and just a click away, that spirit seems to be gone. Until one day. Freedom and Fado.

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  • Beat generation -- Fiction