On the Road 

Jack Kerouac

25th Anniversary Edition.  Paperback.

One of the most powerful and important novels of our time.  The book that turned on a generation. 

On the Road is a saga of youth adrift in America, traveling the highways, exploring the midnight streets of the cities, learning the vast expanse of the land, passionately searching for their country and themselves.  On the Road is an explosion of consciousness--a mind-expanding trip into emotion and sensation, drugs and liquor and sex, the philosophy of experience and the poetry of being.  On the Road turned on a whole generation to the youthful subculture that was about to crack the gray facade of the fifties wide open and begin the greening of America.  It is, quite simply, one of the great novels and major milestones of our time.