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On the road / Jack Kerouac.
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- ISBN: 9780143129509 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: 307 pages ; 20 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2016.
- Copyright: ©1957
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| Subject: | Beat generation > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Autobiographical fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cookstown Branch | FIC Kerou | 31681010331338 | FICTIONPBK | Available | - |
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 âBeat generationâ 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 âone vast book,â The Duluoz Legend. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven.
