The novel that launched the beat generation's literary legacy describes the world of Jack Kerouac Allen Ginsberg & Neal Cassady. Published two months before Kerouac began On The Road Go" is the first & most accurate chronicle of the private lives the Beats lived before they became public figures. In lucid fictional prose designed to capture the events emptions & essence of his experience Holmes describes an individualistic post-World II New York where crime is celebrated writing is revered & parties booze discussions drugs & sex punctuate life."