Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" was published 66 years ago today
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Neal Cassady (left) and Jack Kerouac, 1952 Photo by Carolyn Cassady One of the first novels of the Beat movement of the 1950s, On the Road, by Jack Kerouac, was published on this day in 1957 — 66 years ago. The novel chronicles the cross-country wanderings of a Kerouac-like hero, Sal Paradise, and his pal, Dean Moriarty, based on Neal Cassady, and their free-ranging encounters with drugs, free love and the budding counterculture.
Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" was published 66 years ago today
Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" was published 66…
Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" was published 66 years ago today
Neal Cassady (left) and Jack Kerouac, 1952 Photo by Carolyn Cassady One of the first novels of the Beat movement of the 1950s, On the Road, by Jack Kerouac, was published on this day in 1957 — 66 years ago. The novel chronicles the cross-country wanderings of a Kerouac-like hero, Sal Paradise, and his pal, Dean Moriarty, based on Neal Cassady, and their free-ranging encounters with drugs, free love and the budding counterculture.