On the Road
Sal Paradise falls in with Dean Moriarty, a fast-talking ex-reform-school driver, and starts crossing and recrossing the continent between New York, Denver, San Francisco and Mexico City. Jobs, girls, jazz clubs, borrowed cars and other people's money come and go in pursuit of what they only ever call 'IT'. Restlessness canonized as scripture of the Beat generation.
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Lineage
- influenced by ↑ In Search of Lost Time
- ↓ Rabbit, Run
- ↓ The Dharma Bums
- ↓ Big Sur
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