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Title: Desolation Angels
Condition: New
Description: The classic autobiographical novel, “one of the most true, comic, and grizzly journeys in American literature” (Time), from acclaimed author Jack Kerouac

“If the Pulitzer Prize were given for the book that is most representative of American life, I would nominate Desolation Angels.”—Dan Wakefield, The Atlantic
 
Desolation Angels 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
EAN: 9781573225052
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781573225052
Publisher: Riverhead Books,U.S.
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 196mm
Item Length: 128mm
Genre: Fiction
Release Date: 09/01/1995
Language: English
Item Width: 28mm
Item Weight: 323g
Release Year: 1995

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