Fifty yars after its original publication, Kerouac's road epic - typed on one continuous scroll in only three weeks - is published for the first time as the author inteded, complete with real names, places, and scandalous details. In this influential odyssey of jazz and drugs, of filling stations and marriage licences, of sex, and poolsharks, and hiballs, Kerouac tells the real story of his travels with car thief and Beat icon Neal Cassady, and the famous friends they met, drank with, and ignored. A record of his journeys across the great American landscape, On the Road: The Original Scroll is also a testimony to Kerouac's contant obsession with the ill-fated Cassady himself.