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 Kerouac's exhilerating novel defined the new beat generation it had tremendous impact on both sides of the Atlantic and made him famous overnight