Magnet fine arts: the importance of Kerouac and On The Road

Magnet fine arts: Kerouac
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On the Road is a highly-recommended book for the college-bound student or the adventure-minded person.
- Lower middle class life in the post-war, post-depression era prior to widespread prosperity.
- A writer and his charismatic buddy criss-cross the US by bus, hitch-hiking, train and careening, high-speed driving.
- Find an atlas and keep it by your side as you read so that you can learn the towns and cities of the US.
- Men obsessed with drinking, sex, drugs and boyish freedom nonetheless bond with each other over philosophical inquiry.
- How men slowly and painfully mature.
- Strong parallels with Huckleberry Finn and The Great Gatsby.
- A celebration of jazz and of brotherhood.
- Published in 1957 the tale catalyzed the alienated and restless youths already disillusioned by the material prosperity delivered by success in the American Dream.

1.Kerouac 2.Ginsberg 3.Lear 4.Burroughs 5.Albee 6.Albee 7.Kerouac 8.Carroll 9.Carroll
10.Dylan 11.Albee 12.Kerouac 13.Beatles 14.Kerouac 15.Kerouac 16.Kerouac 17.San Francisco.