On the Road (Popular Penguins)

Sal paradise, a young innocent, joins the slightly crazed dean moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the united states their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the american dream a brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, jack kerouacs exhilerating novel defined the new beat generation it had tremendous impact on both sides of the atlantic and made him famous overnight