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1) On the road
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Language
English
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Description
Based on his adventures with Neal Cassady, Kerouac tells the story of two friends, whose four cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true experience. Teeming with the rhythms of fifties underground America, jazz, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road, Kerouac's novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to be "Beat". --Adapted from publisher description.
Author
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2011], ℗2011
Language
English
Description
For Eve Weldon, moving to Greenwich Village is a dream come true. She grew up hearing stories of her mother's time there during the bohemian era of the sixties, when she immersed herself in a community of artists and writers. But when Eve arrives, the only writer she meets is a cranky beat-generation ghost, and the only writing she does is for a morning news show. The competitive environment of the network is a far cry from the congenial camaraderie...