{"product_id":"on-the-road-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-9780140283297","title":"On the Road: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe legendary novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation, now in a striking new Pengiun Classics Deluxe Edition \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired by Jack Kerouac's adventures with Neal Cassady, \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naivet  and wild ambition and imbued with Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz, \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e is the quintessential American vision of freedom and hope, a book that changed American literature and changed anyone who has ever picked it up. \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJack Kerouac \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Town and the City\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 1950, but it was \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady, that epitomized to the world what became known as the \"Beat generation\" and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed, among them \u003ci\u003eThe Dharma Bums\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Subterraneans\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBig Sur\u003c\/i\u003e. Kerouac considered all of his autobiographical fiction to be part of \"one vast book,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Duluoz Legend\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50598939361554,"sku":"9780140283297","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_409f87a8-4e8d-4e00-9af4-2de92a7f8580.jpg?v=1732194255","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/on-the-road-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-9780140283297","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}