Jack Kerouac "On the road"

about this book:

On the road is a road roman as the name says, including a lot of his journey describtions. Long time ago now, when I red this book first I began to fell free as J.K. Some views of my world were indeed altered.
In this way: Be warned! =)

about the author:

J.K. is a well known author, one of the so called pioneers of the Hippie Generation. He was born in 1922 in Masachusetts as child of frankocanadian parents. After a short time at the Columbia University he had to serve during WW2 at the trade marine. After that he spent his time by hitchiking and jobing through the States and Mexico. In this time he wrote down his adventures and experiences. J.K. writing style is very straight, hard and, of course as fast as the times were changing in those days. He wrote about free life, drugs and excesses as well as about philosophy and religion, about truelly believing in something. His books seem to be mostly autobiographic I think. Reading them in timely order shows his personality changing from a wild & sentimental boy to a rather experienced man.