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- From the acclaimed Beat writer, Jack Kerouac's unique collection of personal travel writing, now reissued following his centenary celebrationIn his first directly autobiographical book, Jack Kerouac relates the exhilarating stories of the years he spent restlessly traveling and writing his acclaimed novels.
- About the Author: JACK KEROUAC was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922.
- 208 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
- Series Name: Kerouac, Jack
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From the acclaimed Beat writer, Jack Kerouac's unique collection of personal travel writing, now reissued following his centenary celebration
In his first directly autobiographical book, Jack Kerouac relates the exhilarating stories of the years he spent restlessly traveling and writing his acclaimed novels. He journeys from the California deserts crisscrossed by train tracks to the bullfights of Mexico to the Beat nightlife of New York City, and across the Atlantic to Paris, Morocco, and London. With echoes of landscapes that appear in his other novels, including The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels, and featuring his distinctive exuberant style and "jazzy impressionistic prose" (New Yorker), Lonesome Traveler is a unique addition to Kerouac's body of work.
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Praise for Lonesome Traveler
"An incredible, animal word-energy . . . For those millions of Americans sitting in their nervous Eames chairs wasting away with eternal boredom, Kerouac appears as a T.E. Lawrence of the five senses."--New York Times
"Full of startling and beautiful things . . . One sees, hears and feels."--Sunday Times
"Kerouac's work is one of the most extraordinary, influential, maddening, and ultimately prodigious achievements in recent literature."--John Clellon Holmes
About the Author
JACK KEROUAC was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1922. He won a scholarship to Columbia University, where he first met Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs. On the Road, published in 1957, 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. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1969.