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The Bible of the beat generation

It is more than half a century since Jack Kerouac's classic novel On the Road was published. The original manuscript of the novel is to be displayed at Birmingham University's Barber Institute. Arts correspondent Rebecca Jones considers the legacy of the book known as the Bible of the beat generation.

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