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On the Road Book Summary

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On the Road, first published in the United States in 1957, is

the most famous of Jack Kerouac’s many novels. It is semi-

autobiographical, and is based on events that took place in

the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. This

is when Jack Kerouac (Sal Paradise in On the Road) and his

friend Neal Cassady (Dean Moriarty in the novel) traveled

throughout the United States, covering huge distances in a

very short time.

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