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        On The Road


        setting

        New York City; San Francisco; Mexico

        time

        1940s-1950s

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1957

        page count

        293

        difficulty

        Advanced

        main characters

        Sal, Dean, Carlo

        Rip's impressions

        Represents an important turning point in American literature, due to its documentation of an emerging lifestyle of the Beat poets. Would any body like to try some tea?

        first line

        I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)

        literary tidbits

        Nobody actually believes Kerouac wrote this in one LONG first draft, do they? Publicity stunt all the way.

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