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sep 5, 1957 - On the road

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Written by Jack Kerouac.
He wrote it after him and his friend traveled across America.
It's an important work in the post war Beat and Counterculture generations.
The book takes inspiration from Jazz poetry and Drugs.
The books 2 main protagonists live completely different lives, one is from the free West and one is from the East, the protagonist from the East then explore the West.

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sep 5, 1957
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~ 68 years ago