On the Road Novel by Jack Kerouac

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On the Road is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug u

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Language

English

Voice Age

Young Adult (18-35)

Accents

North American (General) North American (US West Coast - California, Portland)

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On the road by Jack Kro. I first met Dean. Not long after my wife and I split up, I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won't bother to talk about except that it had something to do with the miserably weary, split up. And my feeling that everything was dead with the coming of Dean. Moradi began the part of my life. You could call my life on the road. Before that, I'd often dreamed of going west to see the country always vaguely planning and never taking off. Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was born on the road and his parents were passing through Salt Lake City in 1926. And then on the way to Los Angeles, first reports of him came to me through Chad King who'd shown me a few letters from him written in the New Mexico reform School. I was tremendously interested in the letters because they so naively and sweetly asked Chad to teach him all about me and all the wonderful intellectual things that Chad knew at one point. Carlo and I talked about the letters and wondered if you would ever meet the strange Dean Murati. This is all far back when Dean was not the way he is today when he was a young jail kid shrouded in mystery. The news came that Dean was out of reform school and was coming to New York for the first time. Also, there was talk that he had just married a girl called Mary Lou.