Allen Ginsberg About the Author Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922, the youngest of three children in a Franco-American family. Jack Kerouac was a writer as his great peer William S. Such rich natural writing is nonpareil in later 20th century, a synthesis of Proust, Celine, Thomas Wolfe, Hemingway, Genet, Thelonius Monk, Basho, Charlie Parker and Kerouacs own athletic sacred insight. Nelson Algren Each book by Kerouac is unique, a telepathic discord. defines the sensibilites of members of his own subgeneration: we knew them as wearing such guises as the Beat Generation, the Subterraneans, the Dharma Bums now we see them as Desolation Angels, sadly pursuing their empty futilities.

He was also a force, a tragedy, a triumph, and an ongoing influence, and that influence is still with us. Time Kerouac was a breath of fresh air when he came on the literary scene. Dan Wakefield, The Atlantic One of the most true, comic, and grizzly journeys in American literature. Review Quotes If the Pulitzer Prize were given for the book that is most representative of American life, I would nominate Desolation Angels. Desolation Angels is quintessential Kerouac. Duluoz attempts to extricate himself from the world but fails, for one must live, travel, adventure, bless, and dont be sorry. After spending two months in the summer of 1956 as a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascade Mountains of Washington, Kerouacs 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.

Book Synopsis 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 Kerouacs life-the period that led up to the publication of On the Road in September of 1957. As he hitches, walks, and talks his way across the world, Duluoz perceives the angel that is in everything.

About the Book The classic novel from the definitive voice of the Beat Generation, Desolation Angels is the story of Kerouacs life just before the publication of On the Road-as told through his fictional self-Jack Duluoz.

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