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The novel is the first to use Kerouac's own developed style of writing which he called 'spontaneous prose'. This was a style which broke with literary conventions and adopted a sentimental, highly descriptive tone which, as one critic put it, "swings to the rhythym of jazz". Many of Kerouac's sentences in the novel are very long, poetical, highly quotable and lyrical. It was written in three weeks, though for the next six years, it was edited and amended sporadically by Kerouac.  

The novel is the first to use Kerouac's own developed style of writing which he called 'spontaneous prose'. This was a style which broke with literary conventions and adopted a sentimental, highly descriptive tone which, as one critic put it, "swings to the rhythym of jazz". Many of Kerouac's sentences in the novel are very long, poetical, highly quotable and lyrical. It was written in three weeks, though for the next six years, it was edited and amended sporadically by Kerouac.  

[[On the Road]] was deemed highly influential in sparking the [[hippie]] movement of the 1960's.  

''On the Road'' was deemed highly influential in sparking the [[hippie]] movement of the 1960s.  

A quote by the musican [[Bob Dylan]] is included on the back page of the Penguin Classics edition of the novel, in which he says of the book: "It changed my life, like it changes everyone elses."  

A quote by the musican [[Bob Dylan]] is included on the back page of the Penguin Classics edition of the novel, in which he says of the book: "It changed my life, like it changes everyone elses."