“What’ll we do? What’ll we do? Let’s move”.

“I just won’t sleep,” I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.”

If you had to summarise this novel in two quotes, there you are!

‘On the Road’ tells the breathless story of the adventures of Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, “two broken down heroes of the Western night”. Set in the years immediately after the Second World War, Sal and Dean, young men of no known occupation or visible means of support, criss-cross America restlessly by car, train and plane:

“Sal, we gotta go and never stop going ’till we get there.’

‘Where we going, man?’

‘I don’t know but we gotta go.” Continue reading →