# On the Road

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- Book: [On the Road](https://www.bookquiver.com/jack-kerouac/on-the-road) ([On the Road.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jack-kerouac/on-the-road.md))
- Authors: [Jack Kerouac](https://www.bookquiver.com/jack-kerouac)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4195-153-8
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2011-04-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'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.