
On The Road; Jack Kerouac
Publisher: The Penguin Press Classics of Modern Literature Edition:First Edition Penguin hardcover Year: 2002 Description: VF, 313 pp.; The First Penguin hardcover edition / October 2002 (stated); On the Road is a novel by Jack Kerouac based upon the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations with its protagonists living life against the backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use.---Wikepedia; made into Hollywood movie (2012) directed by Walter Salles starring Garrett Hudlund as Dean Moriarty, Viggo Mortensen as Old Bull Lee, Sam Riley as Sal Paradise, and Kirsten Dunst as Camille. Jack Huston plays Kerouac and Daniel Radcliff plays Alan Ginsberg. Author: Jack Kerouac