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On the Road
by Jack Kerouac11th Grade pick #25 · ISBN 9780143105466As an Amazon Associate KitQuest earns from qualifying purchases.About this bookDescribed as everything from a "last gasp" of romantic fiction to a founding text of the Beat Generation movement, this story amounts to a nonfiction novel (as critics were later to describe some works). Unpublished writer buddies wander from coast to coast in search of whatever they find, eager for experience. Kerouac's spokesman is Sal Paradise (himself) and real-life friend Neal Casady appears as Dean Moriarty.