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Penguin Books, 2012 - Fiction - 374 pages. '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 ...
9 de sept. de 2007 · The novel alternates between both beauty and sadness. Desolation Angels is an intensely psychological novel – an explanation, as Nelson Algren remarks, of ‘what the place of religion may have been in the Beat mystique’. Kerouac’s spontaneous prose spoke of literary freedom – freedom of style, and of content.
About Desolation Angels. 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 ...
Kerouac saved the best of Desolation Angels for last. In the book's final pages the author's moving portrayal of his mother (Memere) during their cross country trip to Berkeley is most telling and reveals a devoted, loving son whose prodigal behavior and capricious peregrinations riddle him with guilt.
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 Kerouac's life—the period that led up to the publication of On the Road in September of 1957.
A young man searches for meaning, creates art, and grapples with fame in this semiautobiographical Beat Generation classic by the author of On the Road. This urgently paced yet deeply introspective novel closely tracks Jack Kerouac's own life. Jack Duluoz journeys from the Cascade Mountains to San Francisco, Mexico City, New York, and Tangier.
12 de sept. de 2002 · Desolation Angels, by Jack Kerouac, directly follows the plot of The Dharma Bums, beginning where that novel ended, with 63 days of solitude on Desolation Peak in the Cascade Range of Washington State. Its two books, "Desolation Angels" and "Passing Through," (composed of several "parts" and many short numbered chapters) depict one of the last ...
