Joan Didion's book put me in the mood to reread this. "Slouchin Towards Bethlehem" will make a nice compare and contrast. That and I've heard a rumour that they are going to republish Jack's book with the original names. I'd like to reread the versions I'm used to one more time before they do.
Here's the publishers blurb
"Essential Edition handsomely packaged with french flaps, rough fronts, high-quality paper, and a distinctive cover look
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 be "Beat" and has inspired every generation since its initial publication more than forty years ago.
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