Books : On the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition
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by: Jack Kerouac
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780670063260
ISBN: 0670063266
Label: Viking Adult
Manufacturer: Viking Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: August 16, 2007
Publisher: Viking Adult
Sales Rank: 26042
Studio: Viking Adult
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On the Road chronicles Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent-from East Coast to West Coast to Mexico-with his friend Neal Cassady, 'a sideburned hero of the snowy West.'
Read by Will Patton
Amazon.com Review:
A 50th anniversary hardcover edition of Kerouac’s classic novel that defined a generation
Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as On the Road. Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road, Kerouac's classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be 'beat' and has inspired generations of writers, musicians, artists, poets, and seekers who cite their discovery of the book as the event that 'set them free.' Based on Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose four cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naïveté and wild abandon, and imbued with Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, On the Road is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up. This hardcover edition commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the first publication of the novel in 1957 and will be a must-have for any literature lover.
Celebrating 50 Years of On the Road  | In three weeks in a Manhattan apartment in April 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote his first satisfactory draft of On the Road as a single, 120-foot scroll. On the Road: The Original Scroll prints the text of this remarkable literary artifact in book form. | | |  | Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think): John Leland, author of Hip: A History, argues that On the Road still matters not for its youthful rebellion but because it is full of lessons about how to grow up. | | |
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From the back cover of On the Road: The Original Scroll: Jack Kerouac displaying one of his later scroll manuscripts, most likely The Dharma Bums | | | 
Kerouac's map of his first hitchhiking trip, July-October 1947 (click image to see the full map) |
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Original New York Times review of On the Road (click image to see the full review) |
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Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - It was OK
In 1992, while a graduate student, I decided to discover the real America by setting off on a road trip - from Berkeley to Austin Texas. I was joined by a neurotic New Yorker and a Mexican citizen, both of whom happened to hanging about the student co-op house on Durant Avenue. I had met only days before they volunteered to come along for the ride and, as I had had hoped, share the costs.
It turned out the Mexican had no money at all, and was overstaying his visa. The New Yorker had ... Read More
Rating:  - Award-winning actor Will Patton who lends a charged and vivid voice
Audio collections focusing on the classics must have the 50th Anniversary Edition of Jack Kerouac's ON THE ROAD, narrated by award-winning actor Will Patton who lends a charged and vivid voice to Kerouac's adventure story of two friends who make four cross-country road trips.
Rating: - Kerouac's Seminal Book Still Haunts and Resonates a Half-Century Later
In commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of its first printing, Viking Press has republished Jack Kerouac's seminal work in a new hardcover version. There is no question that his story still resonates because the writing is still ripe with human insight and attitudes that have changed little when it comes to seizing the day. The novel focuses on innocent Sal Paradise, who narrates the story, and his inspiration, a wild spirit he meets in New York named Dean Moriarty. As polar opposites, they share ... Read More
Rating: - Yass, Yass, you should read this and explode.
Let me starting by noting that this was the first time I've ever read this wonderful tome. You can't be around literature or even modern American culture without hearing the name Jack Kerouac, but I had never actually sat down and read this book.
It took me a few chapters to "get into it" in terms of the style. But after a while, I couldn't wait to get home from work and read a few more chapters, and savor the goodness. I LOVED the narrative, and the stream of consciousness style added to ... Read More
Rating: - Ultimate Version of a Classic redone
Everything old is new again!
I remember reading Jack Kerouac immortal novel of a road trip when I was in high school. About ten years later, I heard a Rhino record collection of Kerouac reading abridged cuts from his novel with Steve Allen (yes, author/actor/former Tonight show host) playing piano in the background. About five years later, Durkin Hayes audio had David (Kung Fu) Carradine reading an abridged version of the novel. About five years ago, Caedmon audio had Matt Dillon read an unabridged ... Read More
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