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On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
If the Haters say a novel written in a month can’t possibly be ripe with lived-in experience and adventure? Show them On the Road, which Kerouac wrote in three weeks in 1951 on his famous continuous roll of paper. Kerouac had been traveling and taking notes for years beforehand, of course, but no one said you can’t prepare for NaNoWriMo—only that you’re supposed to write 50,000 words of one novel in one month. If you’ve got something to say, you, too, might become the voice of a generation—even if you write your novel in a single November.
For all of you tackling NaNoWriMo this year, we salute you.
On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the two roam the country in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. Kerouac's love of America, his compassion for humanity, and his sense of language as jazz combine to make On the Road an inspirational work of lasting importance.
Kerouac’s classic novel of freedom and longing defined what it meant to...
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