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On the Road 50th Anniversary Edition

by Jack Kerouac

On the Road 50th Anniversary Edition Cover

ISBN13: 9780670063260
ISBN10: 0670063266
Condition: Standard
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Publisher Comments:

A 50th anniversary hardcover edition of Kerouacs classic novel that defined a generation.

Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as On the Road. Pulsating with the rhythms of 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.

Written with a mixture of sad-eyed navet 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, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up. This hardcover edition commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the first publication of the novel in 1957 and will be a must-have for any literature lover.

Synopsis:

This bible of the Beat Generation is a modern classic of the unforgettable exuberance, poignancy, and passion of the 1950s. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of "On the Road" comes Keroacs original scroll version, published in a standard book format.

About the Author

Jack Kerouac was born in 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York, where he met Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs. His first novel, The Town and the City, appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published by Viking in 1957, that made him one of the best known authors of his time. Kerouac died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780670063260
Subtitle:
50th Anniversary Edition
Author:
Kerouac, Jack
Publisher:
Viking Books
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
Beat generation
Subject:
Literary
Edition Number:
50
Edition Description:
Anniversary
Publication Date:
September 2007
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
320
Dimensions:
9.23x6.61x1.09 in. 1.10 lbs.
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