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On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Kerouac, Jack
On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Kerouac, Jack
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Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 08/26/2008
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.65w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780143105466
Age Range: 18-UP
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 10/12/2008 pg. 32
About the Author
Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. His first novel, The Town and the City, appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady, that epitomized to the world what became known as the "Beat generation" and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed, among them The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, and Big Sur. Kerouac considered all of his autobiographical fiction to be part of "one vast book," The Duluoz Legend. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven.