'''''On the Road''''' is the second novel published by the American-born French-[[Canada|Canadian]] author [[Jack Kerouac]]. The principle themes are travel, self-fulfilment, [[drugs]], [[sex]], [[jazz]] and the search for spiritual and physical comfort. It was published after Kerouac's first and more conventional novel, ''[[The Town and the City]]''. 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''''' is the second novel published by the American-born French-[[Canada|Canadian]] author [[Jack Kerouac]]. The principle themes are travel, self-fulfilment, [[drugs]], [[sex]], [[jazz]] and the search for spiritual and physical comfort. It was published after Kerouac's first and more conventional novel, ''[[The Town and the City]]''. 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. |