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
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
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
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
Kerouac, Jack
Penguin Books (1991)
Schools: 7
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
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
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
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
Kerouac, Jack
Penguin (2000)
Schools: 0
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
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
Kerouac, Jack
(1957)
Schools: 0
Kerouac, Jack
Viking Press (1957)
Schools: 0
Kerouac, Jack
(1955)
Schools: 0
Kerouac, Jack
Penguin Books (1977)
Schools: 0
Kerouac, Jack
Viking Press (1957)
Schools: 0
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
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
Kerouac, Jack
(1957)
Schools: 1
Kerouac, Jack
Viking Press (1957)
Schools: 1