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On the Road Audio Book
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On the Road
Author:
Jack Kerouac
Reader: Matt Dillon
This bible of the Beat Generation shocked the public when it appeared in 1957, over five decades ago. Celebrate Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, as they swing to the rhythms of 1950's underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns, and drugs. "Continues to express the restless energy and desire for freedom that makes people rush out to see the world."—Publishers Weekly
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Available Audio Book Editions:
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UNABRIDGED |
Audio Cassettes ( 7 ) |
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Publish Date: 09/14/2000
ISBN: 9780694523610
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Three generations of writers, musicians, artists, and poets cite their discovery of On the Road as the event that "set them free." On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling North America with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make On the Road a work of lasting importance. Performed by Matt Dillon
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Author Bio:
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Jack Kerouac, born Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac in Lowell, Massachusetts, was raised a Catholic and spoke only French until he was five or six years old. He began to write when he was very young, publishing his own sports newspaper for his friends. After attending the Horace Mann School for Boys in New York City (where he was a scholarship student and a football star) and Columbia University (through sophomore year), Kerouac worked as a railroad brakeman and a fire lookout, and later joined the Merchant Marines and then the Navy. He married three times and had a daughter, Janet Michelle, also a writer. In three weeks, in his West 20th Street apartment, he wrote ON THE ROAD, his best-known novel, on rolls of Teletype paper pasted together; however, contrary to myth, the novel was the result of extensive previous planning and drafts. Kerouac is most famous as the chief figure among the writers known as the Beat Generation. His writing sparked heated debate among critics, some decrying his sloppy prose and lack of cohesive plot, others praising his verbal spontaneity and exuberance. Kerouac died of alcoholism at the age of 47.
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