On the road

author: Kerouac, Jack
Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast. As he travels across 1950s America, aspiring writer Sal Paradise chronicles his escapades with the charismatic Dean Moriarty. Sal admires Dean's passion for experiencing as much as possible of life and his wild flights of poetic fancy.
year: 2007, 1999, 2012, 1991, 2005, 1997, 1976, 2003, 2000, 1998, 1990, 1957, 1955, 1977
call number/section: 1000, 1950
subjects: beat generation, fiction, autobiographical fiction, kerouac, jack, fiction beat generation, bohemianism, audiobooks, north america, description and travel, fiction, autobiographical fiction

Editions


On the road
Kerouac, Jack
Viking (2007)
A fiftieth anniversary edition of Jack Kerouac's thinly fictionalized autobiography chronicling his cross-country adventure across North America on a quest for self-knowledge as experienced by his alter-ego, Sal Paradise and Sal's friend Dean Moriarty--Kerouac's real life friend Neal Cassady.
Schools: 2



On the road
Kerouac, Jack
Penguin (1999)
Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast.
Schools: 16



On the road
Kerouac, Jack
Penguin Books (2012)
Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast.
Schools: 1



On the road
Kerouac, Jack
Penguin Books (1991)

Schools: 7



On the road
Kerouac, Jack
Penguin USA (2005)
A modern novel set in the time frame of "the beat generation", the 1950's, which portrays the American vision of freedom and hope.
Schools: 1



On the road
Kerouac, Jack
Viking (1997)
A fortieth-anniversary edition of the novel that defined the beat generation of the 1950s, in which Sal Paradise tells about his travels throughout the North American continent in search of belief and meaning.
Schools: 3



On the road
Kerouac, Jack
Penguin (1976)
Presents a thinly fictionalized autobiography of Jack Kerouac's cross-country adventure across North America on a quest for self-knowledge as experienced by his alter-ego, Sal Paradise and Sal's friend Dean Moriarty.
Schools: 2



On the road
Kerouac, Jack
Penguin Books (2003)
Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast. As he travels across 1950s America, aspiring writer Sal Paradise chronicles his escapades with the charismatic Dean Moriarty. Sal admires Dean's passion for experiencing as much as possible of life and his wild flights of poetic fancy.
Schools: 0



On the road
Kerouac, Jack
Penguin (2000)

Schools: 0



On the Road
Kerouac, Jack
Recorded Books (1998)
Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast.
Schools: 1



On the road
Kerouac, Jack
Penguin Books (1990)
This counterculture classic reveals the escapades of members of the beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast.
Schools: 0



On the road
Kerouac, Jack
(1957)

Schools: 0



On the road
Kerouac, Jack
Viking Press (1957)

Schools: 0



On the road
Kerouac, Jack
(1955)

Schools: 0



On the road
Kerouac, Jack
Penguin Books (1977)

Schools: 0



On the road
Kerouac, Jack
Viking Press (1957)

Schools: 0



On the road
Kerouac, Jack
Buccaneer Books (1955)
Presents a thinly fictionalized autobiography of Jack Kerouac's cross-country adventure across North America on a quest for self-knowledge as experienced by his alter-ego, Sal Paradise and Sal's friend Dean Moriarty (Kerouac's real life friend Neal Cassady).
Schools: 1



On the road
Kerouac, Jack

Presents a thinly fictionalized autobiography of Jack Kerouac's cross-country adventure across North America on a quest for self-knowledge as experienced by his alter-ego, Sal Paradise and Sal's friend Dean Moriarty (Kerouac's real life friend Neal Cassady).
Schools: 3



On the road
Kerouac, Jack
(1957)

Schools: 1



On the road
Kerouac, Jack
Viking Press (1957)

Schools: 1


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