Desolation Angels by Kerouac, Jack

Desolation Angels (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781573225052)

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Format: Paperback
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Desolation Angels by Kerouac, Jack

Desolation Angels

$20.00
Desolation Angels by Kerouac, Jack

Desolation Angels

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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The classic autobiographical novel by Jack Kerouac featuring "one of the most true, comic, and grizzly journeys in American literature" (Time)--now in a new edition

Originally published in 1965, this autobiographical novel covers a key year in Jack Kerouac's life--the period that led up to the publication of On the Road in September of 1957. After spending two months in the summer of 1956 as a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascade Mountains of Washington, Kerouac's fictional self Jack Duluoz comes down from the isolated mountains to the wild excitement of the bars, jazz clubs, and parties of San Francisco, before traveling on to Mexico City, New York, Tangiers, Paris, and London. Duluoz attempts to extricate himself from the world but fails, for one must "live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry." Desolation Angels is quintessential Kerouac.

Author: Jack Kerouac
ISBN-10: 1573225053
ISBN-13: 9781573225052
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1995
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.14w x 1.13d
By Jack Kerouac
By Jack Kerouac
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Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. He attended local Catholic and public schools and won a scholarship to Columbia University in New York City, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. His first novel, The Town and the City, appeared in 1950, but it was On the Road, published in 1957 and memorializing his adventures with Neal Cassady, that epitomized to the world what became known as the "Beat generation" and made Kerouac one of the most best-known writers of his time. Publication of many other books followed, among them The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, and Big Sur. Kerouac considered all of his autobiographical fiction to be part of "one vast book," The Duluoz Legend. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969, at the age of forty-seven.

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