On the road / Kerouac, Jack

Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast. As he travels across 1950s America, aspiring writer Sal Paradise chronicles his escapades with the charismatic Dean Moriarty. Sal admires Dean's passion for experiencing as much as possible of life and his wild flights of poetic fancy.

Presents a thinly fictionalized autobiography of Jack Kerouac's cross-country adventure across North America on a quest for self-knowledge as experienced by his alter-ego, Sal Paradise and Sal's friend Dean Moriarty.

A fortieth-anniversary edition of the novel that defined the beat generation of the 1950s, in which Sal Paradise tells about his travels throughout the North American continent in search of belief and meaning.

A modern novel set in the time frame of "the beat generation", the 1950's, which portrays the American vision of freedom and hope.

Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast.

Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast.

A fiftieth anniversary edition of Jack Kerouac's thinly fictionalized autobiography chronicling his cross-country adventure across North America on a quest for self-knowledge as experienced by his alter-ego, Sal Paradise and Sal's friend Dean Moriarty--Kerouac's real life friend Neal Cassady.