On the Road

The exhilerating novel that defined the Beat Generation

‘What’s your road, man? – holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It’s an anywhere road for anybody anyhow.’

Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American Dream.

A brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, Jack Kerouac’s exhilarating novel defined the new ‘Beat’ generation and became the bible of the counter culture.

Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date: 07/04/2011
Series: Penguin Essentials