on the way

Sal Paradise, the protagonist of this story, follows in the footsteps of Dean Moriarty, a fictionalized version of the legendary Neal Cassady, the icon of the Beat Generation. Crossing America from coast to coast, the journey becomes a perpetual, almost meaningless path, where friendship and death, love and helplessness, loneliness, alcohol and sex converge. Everything is mixed in a narrative of altered and frenetic rhythm, moving and at the same time deeply painful. The feverish state in which it seems to have been created, as well as a devilishly improvised style and that all-encompassing narrative voice, are the keys to this coming-of-age novel that not only portrays a group of poets and friends but an entire generation.Some books drag you to places you intuit but could never reach without their company and strength. On the Road belongs to that lineage and calls to all of us from the very first pages. Daniel RosinoWalden Bookstore Cover illustrationPaco Pomet

Sal Paradise, the protagonist of this story, follows in the footsteps of Dean Moriarty, a fictionalized version of the legendary Neal Cassady, the icon of the Beat Generation. Crossing America from coast to coast, the journey becomes a perpetual, almost meaningless path, where friendship and death, love and helplessness, loneliness, alcohol and sex converge. Everything is mixed in a narrative of altered and frenetic rhythm, moving and at the same time deeply painful. The feverish state in which it seems to have been created, as well as a devilishly improvised style and that all-encompassing narrative voice, are the keys to this coming-of-age novel that not only portrays a group of poets and friends but an entire generation.Some books drag you to places you intuit but could never reach without their company and strength. On the Road belongs to that lineage and calls to all of us from the very first pages. Daniel RosinoWalden Bookstore Cover illustrationPaco Pomet