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'''''On the Road''''' is the second published novel of published by the American-born French-[[Canada|Canadian]] author [[Jack Kerouac]]. The principle themes are travel, self-fulfilment, [[drugs]], [[sex]], [[jazz]] and a search for spiritual and physical comfort. It was published after Kerouac's first and more conventional novel, ''[[The Town and The City]]'', which was heavily influenced by [[Tom Wolfe]]. Kerouac wrote a novel before either of these titled ''The Sea Is My Brother'', which he disapproved of and therefore did not wish to see published.
''On the Road'' was written in 1951 and published in 1957. It chronicles the real-life travels of Jack Kerouac and his friend Neal Cassady in [[Mexico]] and the rest of [[North America]]. In the book, as in Kerouac's other novels which depicted real people, he gave pseudonymns to his characters in order to prevent accusations of libel He refers to himself as Sal Paradise and to Neal Cassady as Dean Moriaty.
