"The raucous, exuberant, often wildly funny account of a journey through America and Mexico, Jack Kerouac's On the Road instantly defined a generation on its publication in 1957: it was, in the words of a New York Times reviewer, "the clearest and most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as "beat." "Written in the mode of ecstatic improvisation that Allen Ginsberg described as "spontaneous bop prosody," Kerouac's novel remains electrifying in its thirst for experience and its defiant rebuke of American conformity. Here, for the first time in one volume, Kerouac's masterpiece is joined with four other autobiographical works about his life on the road - The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, Tristessa, and Lonesome Traveler - and with a selection from his journals in a volume that illuminates his unique and meteoric career." - from the rear outer jacket. "Jack Kerouac's On the Road was a landmark event in American fiction when it was published in 1957, a counter-cultural credo that made Kerouac the reluctant figurehead of a generation that saw itself mirrored in his cast of restless seekers, "mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time." The exuberant, anguished questing of his protagonists Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty was matched by the surging jazz-like cadences of his prose. The Library of America first edition, first printing. Also includes a bound-into-the-volume matching maroon satin ribbon page marker. Illustrated with two-color front are rear endpaper decorations.
Includes Chronology Note on the Texts Notes and List of Other Titles in The Library of America Series. As new condition maroon cloth boards with gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated and black-and-white photographic dust jacket.
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