On the Road

On the Road

<b>The classic novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation<br></b><br>Inspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, <i>On the Road</i> tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naivete and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, <i>On the Road</i> is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up.  <br><br>"An authentic work of art . . . the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat,' and whose principal avatar he is."<br><b>--Gilbert Millstein, <i>The New York Times <br></i></b><br>"<i>On the Road</i> has the kind of drive that blasts through to a large public. . . . What makes the novel really important, what gives it that drive is a genuine new, engaging and exciting prose style. . . . What keeps the book going is the power and beauty of the writing."<br><b>--Kenneth Rexroth, <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i></b><br><br>"One of the finest novels of recent years. . . a highly euphoric and intensely readable story about a group of wandering young hedonists who cross the country in endless search of kicks."<br><b>--Leonard Feather, <i>Downbeat </i></b><br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>