Name: Doctor Sax
Brand: Jack Kerouac

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9780141198248

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2017-04-26

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Jack Kerouac

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Penguin

The American writer and poet Jack Kerouac, né Jean Louis Kerouac, became the leading chronicler of the beat generation, a social and literary movement in the 1950's. Born on 12 March 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA, he achieved fame with his spontaneous and unconventional prose, particularly the novel "On The Road" (1957). His loosely structured, autobiographical works reflect a peripatetic life filled with warm but stormy relationships and a deep social disillusionment assuaged by drugs, alcohol, mysticism, and biting humor.

After studying briefly at Columbia University, Kerouac went on to produce a series of thematically and structurally similar novels such as "The Dharma Bums" and "The Subterraneans" (both 1958), "Doctor Sax" (1959), "Lonesome Traveler" (1960), and "Big Sur" (1962).

Despite his untimely death on 21 October 1969 in St. Petersburg, Florida at the age of 47 years old, Jack Kerouac's influential works continue to captivate readers with their raw portrayal of his tumultuous life experiences.

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Jack Kerouac called Doctor Sax, the enigmatic figure who haunted his boyhood imagination, 'my ghost, personal angel, private shadow, secret lover'. In this extraordinary autobiographical account of growing up in Lowell, Massachussetts, told through his fictional alter ego Jack Duluoz, he mingles real people and events with fantastical figures to capture the accents, scents, sights and texture of his childhood: playing among the river weeds and railroad tracks, going to church, witnessing life and death on the street corners. Written when he was staying with William Burroughs in Mexico in 1952, Doctor Sax was Kerouac's favourite of all his books: a dark, vivid and magical evocation of a boy's vibrant inner life.

Doctor Sax

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