On the Road
Described as everything from a "last gasp" of romantic fiction to a founding text of the Beat Generation movement, this story amounts to a nonfiction novel (as critics were later to describe some works). Unpublished writer buddies wander from coast to coast in search of whatever they find, eager for experience. Kerouac's spokesman is Sal Paradise (himself) and real-life friend Neal Casady appears as Dean Moriarty.
ISBN: 9780451122902
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Bob Dylan
Music"I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else’s."
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Walter Isaacson
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Steve Jobs
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Josh Waitzkin
Sports"Opened up the ecstatic beauty of life’s little moments to me as a teenager."
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Joshua Waitzkin
Sports"Jack Kerouac has a huge impact on my life, On the Road, Dharma Bums. His books were initially tapped me into the idea that life could be ecstatically beautiful."
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