On The Road - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Jack Kerouac, Matt Dillon (Narrator) Story of two restless young men in the late 1940's who cross and recross America, encountering parties, girls, drugs, loneliness, and their own dreams along the way. — Audio Review: — In this "Beat Generation" classic, Jack Kerouac describes his years exploring North America with Neal Cassidy ("Dean" in the book) and other ... more »friends. Kerouac saw Dean as a kind of dropout saint, and generations of young people have obviously agreed with that assessment. The ultimate meaningfulness of Dean's own life as a vagabond may be an open question, but he was certainly a poetic aficionado of life itself. Matt Dillon, a veteran film portrayer of "outsider" youth, gives an authentic texture to the narration and voices. By capturing the lyricism of Kerouac's descriptive writing and Dean's soliloquies, Dillon demonstrates that On the Road is especially well suited to the audio format. -- AudioFile
Says my husband: "This tale would be unthinkable in the modern world, but is perfectly believable in Kerouac's era and setting. Matt Dillon does a wonderful job at narrating, particularly with the beatnik slang."