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Desolation Angels
Jack Kerouac
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Description for Desolation Angels
Paperback. Tells the story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the publication of "On the Road", told through the persona of Jack Duluoz and accompanied by his thinly-disguised Beat cohorts Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 286.
'One of the most true, comic and grizzly journeys in American literature' Time
Desolation Angels is the wild and soulful story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the publication of On the Road, told through the persona of Jack Duluoz and accompanied by his thinly-disguised Beat cohorts Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs. As they hitch, hop freight trains, walk and talk their way across the world, from California to Mexico, London to Paris and on to opium-ridden Tangiers, Kerouac chronicles their poetry, partying, mountain vigils ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141198262
SKU
9780141198262
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About Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922. Educated by Jesuit brothers in Lowell, he decided to become a writer at age seventeen and developed his own writing style, which he called 'spontaneous prose'. He used this technique to record the life of the American 'traveler' and the experiences of the Beat Generation, most memorably in On the Road ... Read more
Reviews for Desolation Angels
Nerve-jangling, sentimental, sincere and funny
Sunday Times
One of the most true, comic and grizzly journeys in American literature
Time
Sunday Times
One of the most true, comic and grizzly journeys in American literature
Time