On the Road: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Kerouac, Jack

The legendary novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation, now in a striking new Pengiun Classics Deluxe Edition Inspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naivet and wild ambition 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, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up. Author: Jack KerouacPublisher: Penguin GroupPublished: 06/01/1999Pages: 304Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 8.42h x 5.62w x 0.82dISBN: 9780140283297Age Range: 18-UPReview Citation(s): Ingram Advance 06/01/1999 pg. 102About the AuthorJack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American f