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On the Road
Jack Kerouac · Literary Fiction · 280 pages
38 Pulse Score
Based on recommendations from independent creators
coming of ageroad trip
coming of age
#386 All Time
About this book
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 Unpublished writer buddies wander from coast to coast in search of whatever they find, eager for experience.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.
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