![]() "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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